Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.


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Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
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I’m drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di Savoia and staring at the ...
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization...
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...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an...
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I sudd...
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...
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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to lea...
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What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement....
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what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...
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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing...
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There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for ...
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There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Ange...
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Disappear here.
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And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down...
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I want to go back," Daniel says, quietly, with effort.
"Where?" I ask, unsure.
There's a l...
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where are we going?' I asked.
'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.'
'But this road does...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
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You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.
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and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
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Will you call me before Christmas?' she asks.
Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c...
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Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.
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What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.
'What do you do?'
'What do you do?' she a...
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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...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down,...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
Where are we going?" I asked
"I don't know," he said. "Just driving."
"But this road doesn...
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People are afraid to merge.
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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 e...
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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were s...
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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 s...
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But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' BRET EASTON ELLIS
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to wo...
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Clay, did you ever love me?"
I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said....
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Disappear here
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But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn't matter.”
“What does?...
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The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed...
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"
[...]
"'When I see a pretty girl walking down ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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Things
changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more
moves, a hard person who ...
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I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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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 ...
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Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married."
Because trying to fuck you is l...
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Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, f...
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How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot devi...
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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