Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
BRET EASTON ELLISDo you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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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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I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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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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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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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.
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