Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
BRET EASTON ELLISPeople just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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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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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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 think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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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 think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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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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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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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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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 move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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