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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?
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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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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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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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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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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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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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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.
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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 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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Women aren't very bright, Rip says. Studies have been done.
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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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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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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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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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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 think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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