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It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.

Bret Easton Ellis

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Ends Party Shows
I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Choices Looks Thinking
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Beer College Drink
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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Drinking Use Week
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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Beautiful Bloodsign Boys Merge
You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Learn Love Moving People
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Catharsis Pain World
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Want Writing
I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Care Want Worry
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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Frustrating Girl Over Skins Wall
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Care Hair Mulling Over
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

Character Dad Female Mom Smart
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.
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Feet Fire Twenties
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Evil Pain Punishment
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn’t a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don’t know. I think it’s a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Female Males Medium Reason Thinking

It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.

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