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James Ellroy

"I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner."

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"I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner."

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A.E. Samaan

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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A.E. Samaan

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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A.E. Samaan

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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A.E. Samaan

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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A.E. Samaan

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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James Ellroy
"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."

Truth

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James Ellroy
"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."

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James Ellroy
"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy."

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James Ellroy
"I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life."

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James Ellroy
"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."

Attention

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James Ellroy
"The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case."

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James Ellroy
"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books."

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James Ellroy
"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."

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James Ellroy
"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career."

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James Ellroy
"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."

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