Bret Easton Ellis

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5 total works indexed

1. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

   · 2012 · cited 24,122x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,383x

3. Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae

   · 1999 · cited 15,393x

4. Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

   · 2004 · cited 10,237x

5. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,906x

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Quotes

• “It's definitely the book that I can tell—I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer–-is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book... I like it.”
• “People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
• “As the salesgirl rings up Charles's purchases, I'm playing with the baby while Nancy holds her, offering Glenn my platinum American Express card, and she grabs at it excitedly, and I'm shaking my head, talking in a high-pitched baby voice, squeezing her chin, waving the card in front of her face, cooing, "Yes I'm a total psychopathic murderer, oh yes I am, I like to kill people, oh yes I do, honey, little sweetie pie, yes I do..."”
• “The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt.”
• “You do an awfully good impression of yourself.”
• “"I hear today's college women are 'prodigious.'""Prodigious? Is that what you heard?""Well, I read it in a magazine. It was something I wanted to believe.""The Jayster. Always a dreamer."”

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Key facts

Born

( 1964-03-07 ) March 7, 1964 (age 62) , Los Angeles , California, U.S.

Occupation

Novelist screenwriter

Education

Bennington College ( BA )

Period

1985–present

Genre

Satire , black comedy , transgressive fiction

Literary movement

Postmodernism

Notable works

American Psycho (1991), Less than Zero (1985), The Shards (2023)

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Official website

breteastonellis.com

Image

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