Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
BRET EASTON ELLISHe 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.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…
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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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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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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 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 like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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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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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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I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention
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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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