Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
BRET EASTON ELLISBaby, 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
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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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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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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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But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.
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I have to return some videotapes
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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You really write the books you want to write. You can’t take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they’ll say about you in the future.
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