"Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story."

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Hollywood Quotes #Stories Quotes #Levels Quotes

“How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.”
“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.”
“It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.”
“The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.”
“I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.”
“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done to-day [sic]. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.”
“There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness.”
“Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.”

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