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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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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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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. – Jock Sturges

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If you live to be one hundred, youve got it made. Very few people die past that age. – George Burns

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once youre aboard, theres nothing you can do. – Golda Meir

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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ. – Donald Cargill

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

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