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I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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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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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
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I am gripped by an existential panic.
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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)
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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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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
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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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