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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
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I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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I don't know why I write what I write.
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No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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I am gripped by an existential panic.
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.
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Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
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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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I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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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.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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