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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Hollywood Levels Stories
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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Two Writing Years
Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
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Care Hair Mulling Over
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Happen Happens Noihing
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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Elevator Father Passing Second
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Completely Demented Misogynist
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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Character Dad Female Mom Smart
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
We buy balloons, we let them go.
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Balloons Buy Go Let
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Anybody Ever Life Mean
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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Character Ideas Way
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Generations Interesting Stylist
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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Beautiful Bloodsign Boys Merge
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.

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