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![Bret Easton Ellis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1638490234i/2751._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“The better you look, the more you see.”
― Glamorama
― Glamorama
![James Collins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1387275711i/21261._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“If you look over to see what the beautiful young woman sitting next to you is reading, and it turns out to be a book about angels, then you can with perfect justification refuse her entry into your life.”
― Beginner's Greek
― Beginner's Greek
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“Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.”
― The Cheese Monkeys
― The Cheese Monkeys
![Bret Easton Ellis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1638490234i/2751._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles." Though that sentence shouldn't bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter. Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's December and the ride on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa Barbara, who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten pretty drunk. Not the mud that had splattered on the legs of my jeans, which felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New Hampshire. Not the stain on the arm of the wrinkled, damp shirt I wear, a shirt which looked fresh and clean this morning. Not the tear on the neck of my gray argyle vest, which seems vaguely more eastern than before, especially next to Blair's clean tight jeans and her pale-blue shirt. All of this seems irrelevant next to that one sentence. It seems easier to hear that people are afraid to merge than "I'm pretty sure Muriel is anorexic" or the singer on the radio crying out about magnetic waves. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words. Not the warm winds, which seem to propel the car down the empty asphalt freeway, or the faded smell of marijuana which still faintly permeates Blaire's car. All it comes down to is the fact that I'm a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone whom I haven't seen for four months and people are afraid to merge.”
― Less Than Zero
― Less Than Zero
![Joan Didion](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1640504428i/238._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.”
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