It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
BRET EASTON ELLISShe sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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