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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.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
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Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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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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I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.
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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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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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If you start looking at movies on a moral level - I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says I don't like science-fiction movies, or I don't want to sit through a Western, or I don't like violence in movies, then I completely tune out.
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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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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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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 write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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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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Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
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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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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
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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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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.
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