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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?

Bret Easton Ellis

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Emotional Except Motion People Real Vampire
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 ELLIS

Book Past Writing
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
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 ELLIS

Book Thinking Writing
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Go Letting Past Real
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Men Misogynistic Thinking
But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Anywhere Littles Matter
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Attraction Rules Taken Together
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Agreement Eerie Sight
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
You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Criticism Hobbies Writing
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Feelings Joy Writing
When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Accustomed Anything Habit People

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