Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
BRET EASTON ELLISI have to return some videotapes
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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People are afraid to merge.
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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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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I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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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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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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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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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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Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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