Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLISMy mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I have to return some videotapes
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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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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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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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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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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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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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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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.
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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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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.
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That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He…ate a balanced diet.
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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.
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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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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