And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn’t remember if he was Catholic or not.
BRET EASTON ELLISYes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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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 don’t know why I write what I write.
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Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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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.
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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 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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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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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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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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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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