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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Attraction Rules Taken Together
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Night Running Thinking
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.
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Assumptions Despite Everywhere Locked Permeated
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Baby Book Heart
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Two Writing Years
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Anybody Ever Life Mean
…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Happen Happens Noihing
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Want Writing
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Drinking Use Week
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Thinking Writing
I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Care Want Worry
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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Ends Party Shows
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Forever Greed Sex
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 ELLIS

Character Dad Female Mom Smart

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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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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