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.
BRET EASTON ELLISThat’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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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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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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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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People just… disappear,” he says. “The Earth just opens up and swallows people,” I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. “Eerie.” Kimball yawns, stretching. “Really eerie.” “Ominous.” I nod my agreement. “It’s just”- he sights, exasperated- “futile.
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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 don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing to worry about. It’s less painful if I don’t care.
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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
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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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