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I’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.

Bret Easton Ellis

So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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Already Dead Less Mime Move Search
I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
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Death Handful Stomach Through Zookeepers
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
I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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Choices Looks Thinking
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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Believe Narrator Smart
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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Attraction Rules Taken Together
And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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Feet Fire Twenties
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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Men Misogynistic Thinking
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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Choices Decade Necessarily Thinking Timeless
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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Dedication Skills Writing
It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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Drinking Use Week
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
We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Balloons Buy Go Let

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