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 ELLISYes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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You really write the books you want to write. You can’t take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they’ll say about you in the future.
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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