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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.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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He 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.
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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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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 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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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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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?
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I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
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