Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
BRET EASTON ELLISThat’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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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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I have to return some videotapes
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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
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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 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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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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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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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