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 ELLISBut 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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.
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I have to return some videotapes
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I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
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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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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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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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People are afraid to merge.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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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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On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
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A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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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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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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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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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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