Best Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis (Top 10)
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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.
Bret Easton Ellis
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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The better you look, the more you see.
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No one ever likes the right person.
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What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never 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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Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.
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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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Disintegration—-I'm taking it in stride.
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More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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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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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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I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever
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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 come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.
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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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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 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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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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