Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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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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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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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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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?
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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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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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 think basically most men are misogynistic.
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I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
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I 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.
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