The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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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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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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You 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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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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 move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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I have to return some videotapes
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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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