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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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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 feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
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So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.
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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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How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
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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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The better you look, the more you see.
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Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
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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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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
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I have to return some videotapes
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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And, Price adds, smiling, if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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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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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 think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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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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