"Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here."

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Source : FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Dec 31, 2013

Bret Easton Ellis

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Theory Quotes

“I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.”
“If you donâ€™t use your voice, thereâ€™s someone waiting behind you who will.”
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”
“I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government. So I know both sides of this world. I found it so interesting and I do seek it out because it's very close to me. It's not a role that existed 15 to 20 years ago.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.280, Princeton University Press
“I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking”

Source : Anthony Hecht (2012). “Collected Earlier Poems”, p.330, Knopf
“I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits.”

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