"I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality."

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Bret Easton Ellis

#Reality Quotes #Done Quotes

“As actors, you become an expert at starting over.”
“If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance”
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”
“There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.”
“By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.”
“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.
“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
“To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.327, Granta Books

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