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BRET EASTON ELLISIf 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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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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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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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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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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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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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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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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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…’
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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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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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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But this road doesn’t go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn’t matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we’re on it, dude,” he said.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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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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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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