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.
BRET EASTON ELLISI 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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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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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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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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