"Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?"

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Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

Bret Easton Ellis

“Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.”
“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”
“Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.”
“People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.”
“Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policyâ€”what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”

Source : "Recession Economics". New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1, February 04, 1982.
“I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.”
“I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...”

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