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I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

Bret Easton Ellis

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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Evil Pain Punishment
I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Already Dead Less Mime Move Search
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Baby Book Heart
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Choices Looks Thinking
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Want Writing
On the seals’ tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL–IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL’S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Death Handful Stomach Through Zookeepers
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Car Light Steps
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Men Misogynistic Thinking
Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Ideas Scream Want
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Anybody Ever Life Mean
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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Apart Attention Thing
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Nihilism Secret World
So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It’s not the seals I hate——it’s the audience’s enjoyment of them that bothers me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Animal Audience Enjoyment Watch Zookeeper
When I’m writing a book, I’m not thinking, “Oh, this would be a great movie.” This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Book Great Interesting Medium Movie
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Catharsis Pain World

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