ITT: Share a good quote or short passage from a book you like.

>Bret Easton Ellis

>>9243806

>Always

>>9243806
yknow i always wondered; the hell kinda name is "Bret" `?

like seriously whod name their kid Bret?

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

i started reading this but i dropped it like halfway because i got bored of reading the same descriptions of clothes over and over again. should i pick it up again?

>>9243879

Yes, just skip over the descriptions of clothing and shit, you're not missing anything on those

>>9243879
No. Read something good instead

>>9243870
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I knew a fuckboi named bret we would call butt nuggets

>>9243806

From the Overcoat by Gogol, spoilered for those who have not read it, since I legitimately consider it one of the best tonal shifts I have ever encountered in literature, and if you spoil it for yourself without reading the short story beforehand you're really robbing yourself of something precious:

Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?

Also, Moby Dick:

>Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

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>Their real opponent was not the hierarchy of residents in the heights far above them, but the image of the building in their own minds, the multiplying layers of concrete that anchored them to the floor.

>>9243930
the film was fucking awesome

>Another time, twice even, I decided to force myself to fall in love. And I did suffer, gentleman, I assure you.