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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

by William D. Cohan

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Oct 14, 2024 05:30AM

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Skippy Dies

by Paul Murray

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“I suddenly thought again: as a writer, you’re always hearing things that aren’t there.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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“And then I flashed on: When you talk to me you’re really talking to yourself, dude. I was still haunted by it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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“And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being one of my first moments nearing adulthood, when I realized how powerful memory was — or at least it was the first time it hurt the most. And there was nothing I could do about the pain of the past — it just settled over me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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“because movies were a religion in that moment, they could change you, alter your perception, you could rise toward the screen and share a moment of transcendence, all the disappointments and fears would be wiped away for a few hours in that church: movies acted like a drug for me. But they were also about control: you were a voyeur sitting in the dark staring at secret things, because that’s what movies were—scenes you shouldn’t be seeing and that no one on the screen knew you were watching.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing. ”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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