Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
