Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
BRET EASTON ELLISWe buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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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 was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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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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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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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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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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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He…ate a balanced diet.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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