“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”

—  Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

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American novelist 1964

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