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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?

Bret Easton Ellis

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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Car Light Steps
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
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Elude Gain Knoweledge Punishment
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.
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Nihilism Secret World
I’m not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
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Creativity Mean Writing
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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Two Writing Years
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Crazy Cruise Madness
You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Learn Love Moving People
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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People Snowflake Thinking
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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Car People Phrases
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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Elevator Father Passing Second
I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.
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Assumptions Despite Everywhere Locked Permeated
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Anybody Ever Life Mean

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