Bret Easton Ellis Short Quotes

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The stars are real.
The future is that mountain.

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'I just had my makeup done, so you can't make me cry.'

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People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.

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Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.

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Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

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The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

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

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I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

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The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

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

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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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History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

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You can argue that writers are notoriously wrong about what they think is their best work.

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Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

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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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Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

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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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Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

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'As a general rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.

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

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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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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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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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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

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I'm Christian Bale", Russel, says, taking [her hand].
"Oh right," she says. "Yeah, I thought I recognized you. You're the actor.

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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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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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But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.

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When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.

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