Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
BRET EASTON ELLISBaby, 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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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.
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If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.
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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 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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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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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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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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