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  1. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus,
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  2. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    The better you look, the more you see
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  3. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    Café Flore is packed, shimmering, every table filled. Bentley notices this with a grim satisfaction but Bentley feels lost. He's still haunted by the movie Grease and obsessed with legs that he always felt were too skinny though no one else did and it never hampered his modeling career and he's still not over a boy he met at a Styx concert in 1979 in a stadium somewhere in the Midwest, outside a town he has not been back to since he left it at eighteen, and that boy's name was Cal, who pretended to be straight even though he initially fell for Bentley's looks but Cal knew Bentley was emotionally crippled and the fact that Bentley didn't believe in heaven didn't make him more endearing so Cal drifted off and inevitably became head of programming at HBO for a year or two. Bentley sits down, already miked, and lights a cigarette. Next to them Japanese tourists study maps, occasionally snap photos. This is the establishing shot.
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  4. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    when you were young and your heart was an open book you used to say live and let live.
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  5. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.
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  6. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the opposite of helplessness or damage or craving or suffering or shame. But she was never really happy and already, in a matter of days, she had reached a stage in our relationship where she no longer really cared about me or any thoughts or ideas I might have had.
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  7. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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  8. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that.
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  9. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    The Dave Matthews Band's "Crash into Me" played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything to do with the images the song was played over but it was "haunting", it was "moody", it was "summing things up", it gave the footage an "emotional resonance" that I guess we were incapable of capturing ourselves. At first my feelings were basically so what? But then I suggested other music: "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails, but I was told that the rights were sky-high and that the song was "too ominous" for this sequence; Nada Surf's "Popular" had "too many minor chords", it didn't fit the "mood of the piece," it was – again – "too ominous." When I told them I seriously did not think things could get any more fucking ominous than they already were, I was told, "Things get very much more ominous, Victor," and then I was left alone.
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  10. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
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  11. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly. "A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.
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  12. Bret Easton Ellis _ Glamorama

    The better you look, the more you see.
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