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Bright Lights, Big City

Name: Bright Lights, Big City
Author: Jay McInerney

Bright Lights, Big City is an American novel by Jay McInerney, published by Vintage Books on August 12, 1984. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the mid-1980s New York City fast lane.

“Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.”

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“Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.”

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“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”

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“Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”

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“You notice for the first time that she has freckles. You didn't know they still made them.”

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Bright Lights, Big City (1984)

“You are on the anti-cline of the first rush. You are also experiencing the inevitable disappointment of clubs. You enter with an anticipation that on the basis of past experience is completely unjustified. You always seem to forget that you don't really like to dance. Since you are already here, though, you owe it to yourself to make a sustained assault on the citadel of the senses.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City (1984)

“… and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City (1984)

“You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City (1984)

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