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 ELLISMy mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning
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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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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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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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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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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