I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
BRET EASTON ELLISDo you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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I have to return some videotapes
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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People are afraid to merge.
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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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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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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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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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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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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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