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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, American Psycho

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“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 lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“This is not an exit.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“The better you look, the more you see”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“The boys eat happily looking into each other’s eyes. Blood runs down their chins.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell ... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
The Human Virus can now be isolated and treated.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“The better you look, the more you see.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“No one ever likes the right person.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“I suddenly thought again: as a writer, you’re always hearing things that aren’t there.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards