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I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

Bret Easton Ellis

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
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
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 though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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Imagine Numbness Probably Relationship Tea
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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Darkness Wind Woods
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
I 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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Choices Decade Necessarily Thinking Timeless
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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Boy Boys Catholic Sex
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 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
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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Female Males Medium Reason Thinking
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
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Forever Greed Sex

I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

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I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

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