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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Bret Easton Ellis

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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Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
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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Corner Functioning Imitating Resemblemnce Simply
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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Feelings Joy Writing
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Catharsis Pain World
I’m not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
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Creativity Mean Writing
I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
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Elude Gain Knoweledge Punishment
I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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People Snowflake Thinking
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.
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Care Want Worry
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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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn’t seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he’d shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.
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Nihilism Secret World
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Black Looks Sky
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.
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Book Past Writing
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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Ends Party Shows
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study

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