The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
BRET EASTON ELLISPeople are afraid to merge.
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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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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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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 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 come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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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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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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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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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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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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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