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BRET EASTON ELLISWe buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
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I have to return some videotapes
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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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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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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It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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