Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
BRET EASTON ELLISI don’t know why I write what I write.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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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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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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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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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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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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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
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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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