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.
BRET EASTON ELLISThere’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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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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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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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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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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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I have to return some videotapes
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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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