Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

… 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.

Loss

Memories

Rap

…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Happens

Ifs

…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.

Hands

Ideas

Real

A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. 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.

Hard Times

Keys

Stars

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Attention

Paid

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.

Men

Moving

Odds

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.

Baby

Book

Heart

but I don’t want to wear a condom because I don’t feel anything,” and she says calmly… glaring at me,”If you don’t use one you’re not going to feel anything anyway.

Condom

Use

Want

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

Karma

Past

Want

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.

Dream

Past

Real

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Acting

Adept

Agreement

Angst

Animal

Another Life

Answers

Apathy

Attention

Baby

Balloons

Believe

Bird

Bloodlust

Book

Care

Catharsis

Children

Cities

Condom

Couple

Courses

Criticism

Dad

Dark

Deals

Dedication

Depends

Directors

Disappointed

Disintegration

Distraction

Doe

Done

Doors

Dream

Drinking

Eerie

Ends

Enough

Errors

Execution

Existential

Eye

Fear

Feelings

Feels

Female

Forever

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Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

… 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.

…if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

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.

but I don’t want to wear a condom because I don’t feel anything,” and she says calmly… glaring at me,”If you don’t use one you’re not going to feel anything anyway.

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

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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