People are afraid to merge.
BRET EASTON ELLISI’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn’t remember if he was Catholic or not.
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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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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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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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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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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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