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Jay McInerney _ The Juice: Vinous Veritas
Rosania says. "To keep them to myself would be unimaginable. Wine is meant to be shared." It's a refreshing attitude, particularly if you are on the receiving end of it. The night before the auction I personally consumed, by my best estimate, over $20,000 worth of his wine-including the 1945 Mouton and the 1947 Cheval Blanc-and I was one of fourteen drinkers.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other room. Then your night life started getting more interesting and complicated, and climbing out of bed became harder and harder. You were gathering experience for a novel. You went to parties with writers, cultivated a writerly persona. You wanted to be Dylan Thomas without the paunch. F. Scott Fitzgerald without the crack-up. You wanted to skip over the dull grind of actual creation.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
Just outside the door you spot her: tall, dark and alone, half hidden behind a pillar on the edge of the dance floor. You approach laterally, moving your stuff like a Bad Spade through the slalom of a synthesized conga rhytm. She jumps when you touch her shoulder. "Dance?" She looks at you as if you had just suggested instrumental rape. "I do not speak English," she says, when you ask again. "Français?" She shakes her head. Why is she looking at you that way, as if tarantulas were nesting in your eye sockets?
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
The bald girl is emblematic of the problem. The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. When you meet her you are going to tell her that what you really want is a house in the country with a a garden. New York, the club scene, bald women - you're tired of all that. Your presence here is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
The bald girl i emblematic of the problem. The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. When you meet her you are going to tell her that what you really want is a house in the country with a a garden. New York, the club scene, bald women - you're tired of all that. Your presence here is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright, Precious Days
they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright, Precious Days
He belonged to the new breed of male epicureans who viewed cooking as a competitive sport, and pursued it with the same avidity that others had for fly-fishing or golf, with the attendant fetishization of the associated gadgetry and equipment. He
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.
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Jay McInerney _ Bright Lights, Big City
„Az élet nem áll meg, az emberek változnak", mondta Amanda. Őt ez tökéletesen kielégítette. Te magyarázatot akartál, szép kerek befejezést, a felelősség megállapításával, és jogos igazságszolgáltatással. Fejedben megfordult a bosszú és megfordult a kibékülés gondolata. S lám, mindebből nem maradt egyéb, mint a sejtelem, hogy az életed úgy válik semmivé mögötted, akár egy könyv, melyet túl gyorsan futottál át, s melynek nyomában csak egy szétfoszló kép- és érzelemcsík marad, míg végül emlékezeted egy üres nevet őriz csupán.
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