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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
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I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
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I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
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If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
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It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
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Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
The Rules of Attraction (2010) 64 -
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
American Psycho (2014) 302 -
No one ever likes the right person." ~ Bret Easton Ellis
The Rules of Attraction (2010) 261 -
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
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