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Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
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Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
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I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.
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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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If you start looking at movies on a moral level - I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says I don't like science-fiction movies, or I don't want to sit through a Western, or I don't like violence in movies, then I completely tune out.
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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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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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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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It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
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I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
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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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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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