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“There is this thing that people do. A thing I’ve noticed. Where they think if they show each other their most horrible horrors or whatever, then they are close. They are friends. You tell me about your mother, and I tell you about the trial, and then we are bonded. But it’s not really a way to know someone, just to see their glorious wounds. It’s like a shortcut. I don’t wanna take a shortcut with you.”

You see everyone, even the people who are closest to you, in the context of yourself.

I just want to lie in the sun and be certain I am loved.

“He would’ve loved the Internet, Andy. It would’ve devoured him, and he would’ve loved it anyway.”

“I’m always a little in love with someone…”

“I blame my mom for a lot of things. She is, in general, the reason I ended up like this.”
“Well, I like the way you ended up,” he said.

…when someone changes a topic so abruptly, they’re dodging something specific. But to act isn’t to pry, only to be willing to listen more.

And “cringe” is what people who can’t feel things call feelings.

“Warhol was making himself the whole time. That was the real art project. The constant construction of self.”