We buy balloons, we let them go.
BRET EASTON ELLISWe buy balloons, we let them go.
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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I don’t know why I write what I write.
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I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
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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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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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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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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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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Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?’ […] ‘”When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things.
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Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars’ worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I’m at a loss: […] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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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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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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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.
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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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I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.
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