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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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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dad
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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. Ive got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, Ive got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. – 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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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. – Albert Camus

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

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all thats going on right now in a big way. – Bob Dylan

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In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. – Marlo Thomas

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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. – Orson Welles

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Im uncomfortable when Im comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I cant help it, its my personality. Id like to think its not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur. – Jay Chiat

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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