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 ELLISLook how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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She 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.
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He…ate a balanced diet.
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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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Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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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.
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I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. 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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…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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…
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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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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People are afraid to merge.
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I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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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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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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But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn’t matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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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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How could she ever understand that there isn’t any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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