I don’t know why I write what I write.
BRET EASTON ELLISI 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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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
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I have to return some videotapes
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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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People are afraid to merge.
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But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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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 think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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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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