Bret Easton Ellis Quotes - Page 3

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• There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Use, Week

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.306, Pan Macmillan

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• Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sex, Issues, Justice

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.375, Vintage

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• People are afraid to merge.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  People

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• I am gripped by an existential panic.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Panic, Existential

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

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• All of my books come from pain.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Pain, Book

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

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• When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Naps, Tough Times

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Jan 01, 2014

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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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Secret, Nihilism, World

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Imperial Bedrooms”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Males, Female

  "Bret Easton Ellis on American Psycho, Christian Bale, and His Problem with Women Directors". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reality, Done, Adept

  Bret Easton Ellis (2005). “Lunar Park”, p.146, Vintage

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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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Smart, Believe, Narrators

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Scene, Novel, Touched

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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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.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Want

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• You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Criticism, Hobbies

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Numbness, Tea, Imagine

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.379, Vintage

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• I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Lunch, Important, Forgotten

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Baby, Book, Heart

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 04, 2011

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• I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Passion, Acting

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Way, Looking Forward, Disappointed

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

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  Moving, Start The Day, Wells

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.380, Vintage

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• By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Reading, Land, World

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.221, Pan Macmillan

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• The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Bird, Owl

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Odds, People

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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

  Mother, Fighting, Way

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• People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sight, Agreement, Eerie

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