Quote by James Ellroy
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind mos

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… – James Ellroy

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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I dont want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. – James Ellroy

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Age
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As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. – James Ellroy

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The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. – Ernest Hemingway

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientists search for truth. – Irving Langmuir

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All the time I feel I must justify my existence. – Prince Of Wales Charles

As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and Im like, Oh my goodness gracious – thats so insane. I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool. – Jordin Sparks

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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