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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
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Short Story Writer
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LA
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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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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'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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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 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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The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.
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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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With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...
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I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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I have to return some videotapes
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I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
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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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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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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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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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