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BRET EASTON ELLISI totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath.
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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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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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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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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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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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