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?
BRET EASTON ELLISYou really write the books you want to write. You can’t take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they’ll say about you in the future.
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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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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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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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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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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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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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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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