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David Van Patten is a fellow Wall Street banker and another member of Patrick Bateman’s main social circle. He has a girlfriend who he regularly cheats on and is the first person the reader sees wave a dollar bill in front of the face of a beggar, only to snatch it away and run off cackling.
David Van Patten Quotes in American Psycho
The American Psycho quotes below are all either spoken by David Van Patten or refer to David Van Patten. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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All of the men outside Tunnel tonight are for some reason wearing tuxedos, except for a middle-aged homeless bum who sits by a Dumpster, only a few feet away from the ropes, holding out to anyone who pays attention a Styrofoam coffee cup, begging for change, and as Price leads us around the crowd up to the ropes, motioning to one of the doormen, Van Patten waves a crisp one-dollar bill in front of the homeless bum’s face, which momentarily lights up, then Van Patten pockets it as we’re whisked into the club, handed a dozen drink tickets and two VIP Basement passes.
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David Van Patten Quotes in American Psycho
The American Psycho quotes below are all either spoken by David Van Patten or refer to David Van Patten. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
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Quotes
All of the men outside Tunnel tonight are for some reason wearing tuxedos, except for a middle-aged homeless bum who sits by a Dumpster, only a few feet away from the ropes, holding out to anyone who pays attention a Styrofoam coffee cup, begging for change, and as Price leads us around the crowd up to the ropes, motioning to one of the doormen, Van Patten waves a crisp one-dollar bill in front of the homeless bum’s face, which momentarily lights up, then Van Patten pockets it as we’re whisked into the club, handed a dozen drink tickets and two VIP Basement passes.
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