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Imperial Bedrooms

by Bret Easton Ellis

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Oct 05, 2026 11:12PM

“There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and the state. The protest was a form of systemic hygiene, purging and lubricating. It attested again, for the ten thousandth time, to the market culture’s innovative brilliance, its ability to shape itself to its own flexible ends, absorbing everything around it.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

tags: demonstrator, protest, state, systems

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“When he died he would not end. The world would end.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

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“I think there has to come a time when everyone in the world treats each other as if they were good friends. Since humanity has come so far, I think now we will definitely be able to make it to such a place.

So I think I want to become a person who can help that happen.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

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