People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
BRET EASTON ELLISMy pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I have to return some videotapes
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So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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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.
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I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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