What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
BRET EASTON ELLISWhat else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath.
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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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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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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I have to return some videotapes
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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.
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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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I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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