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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2657b1a | 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. | in-denial racist stupidity superficial | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 63fb268 | and like in a movie I appear in front of the D'Agostino's, sale's clerks beckoning for me to enter, and I'm using an expired coupon for a box of oat-bran cereal and the girl at the checkout counter--black, dumb,slow-- doesn't get it, doesn't notice the expiration date has passed even though it's the only thing I buy, and I get a small but incendiary thrill when I walk out of the store, opening the box, stuffing handfuls of the cereal into m.. | animals cats cats-being-needed dogs dogs-and-cats invasive-species narcissism selfishness sociopath sociopathology sociopathy | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| cf7da4d | While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No...one...would...care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our l.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d17a7b3 | Que es lo peor que te ha pasado, Jimmy?", lee fuera de cuadro alguien que hace el papel de una chica llamada Claire. "El amor incondicional", responde el chico, y el personaje de Jimmy se vuelve con fingida verguenza, pero el chico lee mal la frase, poniendo el enfasis donde no toca, sonriendo cuando deberia haberse puesto totalmente serio, convirtiendolo en el remate de un chiste cuando nunca lo ha sido." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3cf0dc4 | Me mira fijamente, y la mirada que le devuelvo es el principio de todo, y me imagino el futuro: "?Por que me odias?", imagino que dice la voz angustiada de una chica. "?Que te he hecho?, imagino que grita otra persona." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| b550fdc | The Patty Winters Shows were all repeats. Life remained a blank canvas, a cliche, a soap opera. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was bone season for me and I needed a vacation. I needed to go to the Hamptons. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3e6953f | Todo el mundo tiene meido. Pero si nos mantenemos unidos, si intentamos estar disponibles para los otros, ya no tendremos miedo. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 18dce26 | God, the name Susan is so ugly. It reminds me of the word sinus. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 648115c | El olor a castanas asadas se mezcla con el anhidrido carbonico de los escapes. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8c697b9 | Cada dia hay todo un ejercito de retrasadas impacientes por ser deshonradas. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 6e9db73 | Siempre existe la posibilidad de que ocurra algo aterrador, y normalmente ocurre. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ea5c0f7 | La noria vacia se alza ante nosotros ucando pasamos por su lado, un circulo impreciso apenas visible en la bruma, y, si exceptuamos unos pescadores mexicanos, no hay nadie alrededor. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ab84f8a | El silencio es una risa burlona. El silencio roba algo. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d0d39bc | Nunca me ha gustado nadie y e da miedo la gente. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 896a991 | I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding and homely and FAT. Three glazed jelly doughnuts AND two steaming cups of extra-dark HOT chocolate opened to the comics and it struck me that I was infinitely better-looking, more successful and richer than this poor bastard would ever be and so with a passing rush of sympathy I smiled and nodded a curt though not impo.. | superficiality | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| a5dc056 | The better you look, the more you see | inequality model perception perspective superficiality vanity | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 141c28e | Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus, | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 695f354 | 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. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personali.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| c237bd4 | The Grinch says ! | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| ac57d13 | Honey?" she asks. "Don't call me that," I snap. "What? Honey?" she asks. "Yes," I snap again. "What do you want me to call you?" she asks, indignantly. "CEO?" She stifles a giggle. "Oh Christ." "No, really Patrick. What do you want me to call you?" King, I'm thinking." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8ca7d83 | And as things fell apart Nobody paid much attention Talking Heads | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| fea74f5 | How can I tell McDermott that this is a very disjointed time of my life and that I notice the walls have been painted a bright, almost painful white and under the glare of the fluorescent lights they seem to pulse and glow. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 2b4c7f0 | It was when she started dealing coke so she could lose weight. It had worked, sort of. I think she still has a fat ass, and can look dumpy, and has dried-out black hair and writes awful poetry and I'm pissed off that I let her get into that position of denying me. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| fae4ab9 | This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d1d461c | but hey, she works in a video rental store and since it's such a demanding high-powered profession her bitchy behavior is completely reasonable, right? The | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 398e235 | I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 75b4868 | 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. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1bcb18d | it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 29679c6 | Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer," | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 7b97445 | I think ... you know how they say no two snowflakes are ever alike?" She nods. "Well, I don't think that's true. I think a lot of snowflakes are alike ... and I think a lot of people are alike too." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 4c84353 | The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness, | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 57a85b1 | 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." | lunar-park | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| 7e9920b | 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. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 16b586f | Life is full of endless possibilities." I tried valiantly not to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom," | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| f85145c | This forced you to look again at the people who raised them, coddling them with praise and trying to shield them from the grim sides of life, which might well have created children who, as adults, appeared highly confident, competent and positive but at the hint of darkness or negativity often became paralyzed and unable to react except with disbelief and tears--You just victimized me!--and retreated, in effect, into their childhood bubbles.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 836bdf1 | nonchalant, | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| e490db4 | Well, I'm sorry." I smile. "I'm having problems." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 171d797 | And though it has been in no way a romantic evening, she embraces me and this time emanates a warmth I'm not familiar with. I am so used to imagining everything happening the way it occurs in movies, visualizing things falling somehow into the shape of events on a screen, that I almost hear the swelling of an orchestra, can almost hallucinate the camera panning low around us, fireworks bursting in slow motion overhead, the seventy-millimete.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 952d571 | 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 | ||
| 8dd2fd2 | 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 | ||
| e788f5d | Certainly, in the spring of 2013 I hadn't fucked up as many gay lives as Bill Clinton had. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 5288ddb | If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it. And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong. He caught a fleeting glimpse of God in the math here, in the infinitesimal duration of a life. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 76de1ff | Her house was the heavy (but not indefinitely heavy) and sturdy (but not everlasting) God that she'd loved and served and been sustained by. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| ee33bd1 | Part of why kids like this scared me was that they seemed authentic. | Jonathan Franzen |