I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
BRET EASTON ELLISThat’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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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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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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 think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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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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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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