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Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

Bret Easton Ellis

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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Car People Phrases
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy Writing
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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Care Want Worry
After a while you learn that everything stops.
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After Everything Stops While
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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Baby Book Heart
If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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Book Thinking Writing
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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Go Letting Past Real
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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Holding Mines People
I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. 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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Director Issues Writing
Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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Father Sports Successful
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart
The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Angst Gay Singing
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
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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Darkness Wind Woods
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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People Snowflake Thinking

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

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Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

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