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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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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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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

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon

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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. – Albert Camus

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