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“You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.”

Experience Clout Bret Easton Ellis Glamorama

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Piece and Piece and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”

American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Blood Red Lettering

Book:American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire -- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathizing, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt any more. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged...”

Satire American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“i am a noncontingent human being”

American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Book:American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“Fame Shark is American Psycho meets Call It Sleep. A no-holds -barred saga of the extremes a human being can go to in his or her quest for attention. Young has the precocity and audacity of Shelley and the fearlessness of Philippe Petit.”

Fearlessness Shelley American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Book:Seven Days in Rio

Source: Seven Days in Rio

“Bret Easton Ellis, taking on the narrative garb of a mass murderer in American Psycho, was, surprisingly, never himself a mass murderer (at least according to a lot of people–I won’t comment on what he sometimes does to an English sentence).”

Grammar English Language English American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis How To Read Separating Art From Artist Eckhard Gerdes

Book:How to Read

Source: How to Read

“You can disappear here without knowing it.”

Entropy Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero Nilhism

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.”

Life Aesthetics Transgressive Bret Easton Ellis

Book:Less Than Zero

Source: Less Than Zero

“..and she follows you to the light at the door and says..."Hello"... and never has a second hurt and ruptured, blistered so harshly because the music's too loud and you can't hear, don't even notice, and you take her hand instead and you are both leaving.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules Of Attraction

Book:The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules Of Attraction

Book:The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“No, not handsome, just vaguely Long Islandish.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules Of Attraction

Author:Bret Easton Ellis