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.
BRET EASTON ELLISI think basically most men are misogynistic.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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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.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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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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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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