What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
BRET EASTON ELLISDo you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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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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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn’t and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn’t change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.
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Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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I have to return some videotapes
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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?
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People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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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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.
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