Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
BRET EASTON ELLISI 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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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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One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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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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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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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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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 feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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 as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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