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"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
Explore more quotes by 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."

"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."

"Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it."

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

"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."

"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."
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