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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist."
"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
"I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age."
"I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective."
"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."
"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."
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