Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLISYou learn to move on without the people you love.
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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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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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I have to return some videotapes
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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.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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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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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I’m not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
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People are afraid to merge.
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Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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