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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.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
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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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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'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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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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I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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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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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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I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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