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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

Bret Easton Ellis

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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Catharsis Pain World
But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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Confronting Karma Past Want
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 think basically most men are misogynistic.
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Men Misogynistic Thinking
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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Agreement Eerie Sight
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
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Holding Mines People
Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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Loss Memories Rap
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Drinking Use Week
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Death Handful Stomach Through Zookeepers

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