Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLISI really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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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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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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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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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I have to return some videotapes
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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