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Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Most importantly we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “There was a romance to that analog era, an ardency, an otherness that is missing in the post-Empire digital age where everything has ultimately come to feel disposable.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “It moved me away from the narcissism of childhood and into the world’s mysteries – the unexplained, the taboo, the other – and drew me closer to a place of understanding and acceptance.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn’t that what people do?”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing,” I tell her.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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 Quote: “I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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 Quote: “I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Unless you’re the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don’t have a lot of control.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “So many people died last year: the accidental overdose, the car wreck in East Hampton, the surprise illness. People just disappeared. I fall asleep to the music coming from the Abbey, a song from the past, “Hungry Like the Wolf,” rising faintly above the leaping chatter of the club, transporting me for one long moment into someone both young and old. Sadness: it’s everywhere.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “What keeps me interested – and it always does – is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “If I want to write a movie, I’ll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it’s something that I think can only be done novelistically.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I wasn’t acting on passion. I was simply acting.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for at least one dance or a blow job in Daddy’s car and there are all these girls, looking indifferent or bored, smoking clove cigarettes, all of them or at least most of them staring at one blond-haired boy standing in the back with sunglasses on. Julian.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I’m having a difficult time containing my disordered self.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “We seem to have entered precariously into a kind of totalitarianism that actually abhors free speech and punishes people for revealing their true selves. In other words: the actor’s dream.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never “Let’s not get the bottle of Cristal.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn’t thinking about them being movies.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “God, the name Susan is so ugly. It reminds me of the word sinus.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Mi dolor es constante e intenso y no espero que haya un mundo mejor para nadie. De hecho quiero que mi dolor le sea inflingido a otros.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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 Quote: “Why not end up with her? floats into my line of vision. An answer: she has a better body than most other girls I know. Another one: everyone is interchangeable anyway.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I think about other things while she describes her recent past: air, water, sky, time, a moment, a point somewhere when I wanted to show her everything beautiful in the world.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “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.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Like these girls care,” Price snorts. “When I tell them what my annual income is, believe me, my behavior couldn’t matter less.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “When I flush the toilet in my bathroom, it becomes stopped up with Kleenex, and blood clouds the water and I put down the lid, because there’s nothing else for me to do.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “This is reality, and as my loathsome brother Sean would say, I have to deal with it. The.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “When Blair bites her lower lip she’s eighteen again.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Lover?” se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “The fact that... you categorize everything as either sexist, or racist, or homophobic, whether it is or not, and therefore harmful to you and you just can’t take it, is a kind of mania, a delusion, a psychosis that we have been coddling, encouraging people to think that life should be a smooth utopia built only for them and their fragile sensibility.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Confusion and hopelessness don’t necessarily cause a person to act.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “She immediately moves into me and says she is sorry and then she’s guiding me toward the bedroom and this is the way I always wanted the scene to play out and then it does and it has to because it doesnt really work for me unless it happens like this.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn’t matter.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “I realize I have nothing to say to Trent Burroughs as I tell him, “I’ve been in New York the last four months.” New Age Christmas music fails to warm up the chilly vibe. I’m suddenly unsure about everything.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information – these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning – to restructure the evidence so it made sense – and that is what I failed at.”
Bret Easton Ellis Quote: “It’s really weird and I’m experiencing a spontaneous kind of internal sensation, I feel I’m moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”
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