But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.
BRET EASTON ELLISThere’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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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.
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There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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