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
BRET EASTON ELLISYou learn to move on without the people you love.
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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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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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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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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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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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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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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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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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