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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
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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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...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
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And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
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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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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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The better you look, the more you see.
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Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
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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've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
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