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Bret Ellis’s first novel, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age. Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he’s... read more
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“The fades, the dissolves, the rewritten scenes, all the things you wipe away - I now want to explain these things to her but know I never will, the most important one being: I never liked anyone and I'm afraid of people.”
Julian Wells
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The fades, the dissolves, the rewritten scenes, all the things you wipe away—I now want to explain these things to her but I know I never will, the most important one being: I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people.
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What keeps me interested—and it always does—is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?
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This is supposed to be part of the appeal: keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can’t be held together forever—take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.
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Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I’ve done it before.
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She’s simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks—her currency in this world—and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.
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“This isn’t a script,” Julian says. “It’s not going to add up. Not everything’s going to come together in the third act.”
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“On a daily basis there’s a whole new army of the retarded eager to be defiled.”
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The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie.
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my eyes wander over to the boys barely old enough to drive swimming in the heated pool, girls in string bikinis and high heels lounging by the Jacuzzi, anime sculptures everywhere, a mosaic of youth, a place you don’t really belong anymore.
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and then I’m remembering the person who warned me about how the world has to be a place where no one is interested in your questions and that if you’re alone nothing bad can happen to you.
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They had made a movie about us.
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- Bret Easton Ellis (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-307-26610-1
Page Count: 169
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-307-26610-1
Page Count: 169
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- Dewey: 813.54
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