I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
BRET EASTON ELLISShe sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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