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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

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
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
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
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.
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Character Dad Female Mom Smart
We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Balloons Buy Go Let
The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Angst Gay Singing
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 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
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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Ends Party Shows
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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Hollywood Levels Stories
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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Care Want Worry
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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Baby Book Heart
People are afraid to merge.
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Afraid Merge People
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
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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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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Book Thinking Writing
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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Ideas Scream Want
Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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Control Directors Money
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Night Running Thinking
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
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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Evil Pain Punishment
That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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Answer Girl Love Party Question
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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Care Hair Mulling Over
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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Odds People Thinking
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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Go Letting Past Real
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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Devastate Lowering Mental Mote Sunglasses

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

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