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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
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murder
theory
humanity
quote
living
life
american-psycho
psycho
conclusion
psychopath
murderers
gore
serial-killer
epiphany
serial-killers
the-world
demons
murderer
society
human-beings
crime
humans
cruel
human-nature
horror
evil
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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snowflakes
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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suicide
college
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There are so many things Blair doesn't get about me, so many things she ultimately overlooked, and things that she would never know, and there would always be a distance between us because there were too many shadows everywhere. Had she ever made promises to a faithless reflection in the mirror? Had she ever cried because she hated someone so much? Had she ever craved betrayal to the point where she pushed the crudest fantasies into reality..
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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
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She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sor..
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?
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That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.
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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. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it's probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.
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light
youth
meaning
clay
signs
meaninglessness
los-angeles
lost
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The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL----IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of t..
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bateman
psycho
seals
patrick
zoo
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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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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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bateman
bret
easton
ellis
bloodlust
frenzy
psycho
patrick
lethal
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
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71dacea
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I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
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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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loneliness
travel
wind
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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
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less-than-zero
parents
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Price. You're priceless.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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People are afraid to merge.
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This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
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some-people
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539da61
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Adjust my dreams for me.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook.
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Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her."
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To me she looks like a big black ant - a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix - eating a urinal cake and I almost start laughing, but I also want to keep her at ease. I don't want her to get second thoughts about finishing the urinal cake. But she can't eat any more and with only two bites taken, pretending to be full, she pushes the tainted plate away, and at this moment I start feeling strange. Even though I marveled at her eati..
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine?" (But isn't that what people do?)" --
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And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead end. "Where are we going?" I asked. "I don't know" he said "just driving". "But this road doesn't go anywhere" I told him. "That doesn't matter." "What does?" I asked, after a little while. "Just that we're on it, dude." He said."
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I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.
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reality
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when I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me...
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Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons."
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mouth
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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The office Halloween party was at the Royalton last week and I went as a mass murderer, complete with a sign painted on my back that read MASS MURDERER (which was decidedly lighter than the sandwich board I had constructed earlier that day that read DRILLER KILLER), and beneath those two words I had written in blood Yep, that's me and the suit was also covered with blood, some of it fake, most of it real. In one fist I clenched a hank of Vi..
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly. "A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late for us to better ourselves, to act kinder. Since it's impossible in the world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really, and it's beautifully stated in this album.
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moment-of-clarity
revelation
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where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how..
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Someone has already taken out a Minolta cellular phone and called for a car, and then, when I'm not really listening, watching instead someone who looks remarkably like Marcus Halberstam paying a check, someone asks, simply, not in relation to anything, "Why? " and though I'm very proud that I have cold blood and that I can keep my nerve and do what I'm supposed to do, I catch something, then realize it: Why? and automatically answering, ou..
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
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relationships
khakis
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You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.
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patrick-bateman
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