Top 100 Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
#2. I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
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#3. I say, staring at her, quite clearly but muffled by "Pump Up the Volume" and the crowd, "You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling. I
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#5. 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.
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#6. By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
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#9. Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married.
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil? With braces?
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#11. Descansado," he tells me.
"What does that mean?"
"Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next to him.
"Yeah?"
"It means relax.
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#12. Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her,
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#13. I can't disagree. I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in the world of Tim Price, which is really the world of most of us: big ideas, guy stuff, boy meets the world, boy gets it.
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#15. I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.
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#16. You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble.
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#17. 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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#18. I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.
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#21. Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I'm tortured by.
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#22. History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.
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#23. The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.
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#24. And the sun, a planet on fire, gradually rises over Manhattan, another sunrise, and soon the night turns into day so fast its like some kind of optical illusion ...
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#25. No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.
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#26. Hip, I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's
my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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#27. And it doesnt really matter if intelligence exists because it is really about the look, the idea of a girl like this, the promise of sex. It's all about the lure.
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#30. You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood, but I'm smiling.
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#31. From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.
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#32. And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.
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#33. I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.
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#34. I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society cannot afford to lose me. I'm an asset
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#36. Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried.
-Lunar planet
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#37. What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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#38. I had to put this slim volume back into my bookshelf and drink a J&B on the rocks, followed by two Xanax, to recover from the effort.
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#39. I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.
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#40. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.
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#41. This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson
or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter
has come up with.
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#42. No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
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#43. The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.
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#44. I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
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#45. And just as the table is about to finally ignore him, to look away and start eating, he sits up and loudly says, pointing an accusing finger at his plate, "It moved!" Timothy glares at him with a contempt so total that I can't fully equal it but I muster enough energy to come close.
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#46. All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.
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#47. Suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.
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#48. If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter.
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#49. Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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#50. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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#51. Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer,
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#52. What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
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#53. This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.
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#55. Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks "basically unfilmable" and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.
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#56. 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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#57. Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.
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#58. I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
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#62. I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she saw at the Pierre, rolling around the lobby of its own accord or something like that.
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#63. Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.'
She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?'
'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby ...
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#65. 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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#66. Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?
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#67. 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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#68. What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.
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#70. Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,
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#71. If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.
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#73. 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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#74. I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
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#75. When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ...
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#76. It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
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#77. There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park
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#78. This is reality, and as my loathsome brother Sean would say, I have to deal with it. The
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#79. 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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#81. But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.'
'What?'
'No I don't.'
There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't you have?'
'I don't have anything to loose.
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#82. I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono's head in orange wavy letters: I ... am ... the ... devil ... and I am ... just ... like ... you ...
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#83. What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
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#85. Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.
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#86. The conversation follows its own rolling accord - no real structure or topic or internal logic or feeling; except, of course, for its own hidden, conspiratorial one. Just words, and like in a movie, but one that has been transcribed improperly, most of it overlaps.
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#89. Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.
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#90. 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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#91. 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.
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#92. Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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#93. Her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [ ... ] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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#94. I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and ... STUFF.
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#96. And before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love.
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#97. I want to watch it again tonight even though I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney at seven-thirty at Cafe Luxembourg.
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#98. Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.
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#99. Who Dunnit?' profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.
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#100. I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.
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