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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I dont

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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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 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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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Ive had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. – Jamie Foxx

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I dont even buy green bananas. – Claude Pepper

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. – Robert C. Pollock

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. – Charles de Montesquieu

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