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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?

Bret Easton Ellis

When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Evil Pain Punishment
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Want Writing
People are afraid to merge.
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Afraid Merge People
But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Confronting Karma Past Want
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Hollywood Levels Stories
Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Beautiful Bloodsign Boys Merge
It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Character Dad Female Mom Smart
Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Devastate Lowering Mental Mote Sunglasses
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feet Fire Twenties
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Loss Memories Rap
How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Disappointed Forward Looking Way
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feelings Joy Writing
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Night Running Thinking
We buy balloons, we let them go.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Balloons Buy Go Let
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Cab Cities Installed

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