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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

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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Book Want Writing
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’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy 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
I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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Frustrating Girl Over Skins Wall
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
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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Men Misogynistic Thinking
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 pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Catharsis Pain World
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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Father Sports Successful
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
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

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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