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and above the building like a backdrop is a moonless sky, which earlier, in the afternoon, was hung with clouds but tonight isn't.
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and reduce the influence of political action committees.
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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, coming up with sequences that she and nobody else could read, moving the game as you play it? Could she locate the moment she went dead inside? Does she remember the year it took to become that way? The fades, the dissolves, th..
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Ted
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in New Jersey this evening, an Irish band called U2 who were on the cover of Time magazine last week.
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Donald Trump is a big U2 fan and then, even more desperately, that John Gutfreund also buys their records.
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There's a man sitting at the table next to ours whose eyes are closed very tightly. The girl he's sitting with doesn't seem to mind and picks at a salat. When the man finally opens his eyes, I'm relieved for some reason.
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Adonde vamos' --pregunte. --No lo se--dijo--. Simplemente damos una vuelta en coche. --pero esta carretera no lleva a ninguna parte--le dije. --No importa. --?Y que es lo que importa? --le pregunte al cabo de un rato. --Solo que estamos en ella, tio --dijo.
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less-than-zero
life-philosophy
life-quotes
road-quotes
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Vsio skhuiiobilos'.
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Vecherinka v stile "zaebis'". Tol'ko nagnis', i tebia zaebut po glandy."
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and she follows you to the light at the door and says..."Hello"... and never has a second hurt and ruptured, blistered so harshly because the music's too loud and you can't hear, don't even notice, and you take her hand instead and you are both leaving."
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the-rules-of-attraction
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It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it.
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the-rules-of-attraction
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Animals need as much love and respect and care as we give people.
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What often activated my stress was that other people were always angry about everything, presenting themselves as enraged by opinions that I believed in and liked or thought were simply innocuous. My pushback against all of this forced me to confront a degraded fantasy of myself--an actor, as someone I never thought existed--and this, in turn, became a constant reminder of my failings. And what was worse: this anger could become addictive t..
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It's an article on your hero, Donald Trump." McDermott grins."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes and aesthetics still count--and the reason I'm a writer is to present an aesthetic, things that are true without always having to be factual or immutable.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The Left had become a rage machine, burning itself up: a melting blue bubble dissolving in on itself.
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While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No ... one ... would ... care.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No ... one ... would ... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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And by the way, did anyone ever tell you that you look exactly like Garfield but run over and skinned and then someone threw an ugly Ferragamo sweater over you before they rushed you to the vet? Fusilli? Olive oil on Brie?
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump. "Have you read it?" I ask Kimball."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up."
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Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in ... this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged ...
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The album ends with "Slammin'," which has no words and it's just a lot of horns that quite frankly, if you turn it up really loud, can give you a fucking big headache and maybe even make you feel a little sick, though it might sound different on an album or on a cassette though I wouldn't know anything about that. Anyway it set off something wicked in me that lasted for days. And you cannot dance to it very well."
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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Back at our table Reeves is telling Hamlin about how he taunts the homeless in the streets, about how he hands a dollar to them as he approaches and then yanks it away and pockets it right when he passes the bums.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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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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Like these girls care," Price snorts. "When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn't matter less."
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I told you, dude," Van Patten says and then patiently restates his facts. "We can't get that. It's like zero zero zero point oh one percentage--"
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Here's the dead end of social media: after you've created your own bubble that reflects only what you relate to or what you identify with, after you've blocked and unfollowed people whose opinions and worldview you judge and disagree with, after you've created your own little utopia based on your cherished values, then a kind of demented narcissism begins to warp this pretty picture.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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As the film historian and critic David Thomson has asked: "What are movies without male lust?"
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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The horror of 9/11 represented the end of Empire, a shock that moved us out of the twentieth century's binary Cold War thinking (The center will not hold) and into a world where there was, and is, no center; our enemies are insurgent and decentralized, our media also decentralized and insurgent.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Sheen's supposed propensity for violence against women hadn't hurt his popularity with female fans either, and if anyone wants to know what that means, then that's a story for maybe fifty other books.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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If I often wished the world were a different place, I also knew--and horror movies helped reinforce this--that it never would be, a realization that in turn led me to a mode of acceptance.
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People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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You do an awfully good impression of yourself.
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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That doesn't sound like...the Jayster.
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Bret Easton Ellis |