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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.

Bret Easton Ellis

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Crazy Cruise Madness
One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Ask Mice One Part Right Swallow Treat
I’m not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he’s not in the mood and doesn’t feel the juice. I don’t think discipline equals creativity.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Creativity Mean Writing
You learn to move on without the people you love.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Learn Love Moving People
Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Forever Greed Sex
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Character Ideas Way
After a while you learn that everything stops.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

After Everything Stops While
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Evil Hands Ignorance
The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Attraction Rules Taken Together
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Accused Apathy Vain
And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Apart Attention Thing
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Deals People Rock Roll
Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Ends Party Shows
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.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Two Writing Years
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
There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Drinking Use Week

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