Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLISPeople can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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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.
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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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I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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People are afraid to merge.
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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.
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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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Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You’re a beautiful boy and that’s all that matters. Wonder if he’s for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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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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I learned that you really don’t have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.
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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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