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Bret Easton Ellis

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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Father Sports Successful
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 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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Agreement Eerie Sight
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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Baby Book Heart
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
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
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Down Girl Real Street Sweet Think
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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Odds People Thinking
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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Novel Scene Touched
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
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Catharsis Pain World
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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Men Moving Odds
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.
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Character Dad Female Mom Smart
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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Night Running Thinking
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.
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Dedication Skills Writing
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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Black Looks Sky

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