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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

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Forever Greed Sex
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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Elude Gain Knoweledge Punishment
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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Control Directors Money
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Men Misogynistic Thinking
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Catharsis Pain World
I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
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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Elevator Father Passing Second
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Holding Mines People
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Accustomed Anything Habit People
With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Generations Interesting Stylist
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Accused Apathy Vain
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Crazy Cruise Madness
And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feet Fire Twenties
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
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

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.

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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.

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