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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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."
"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 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."
"As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it."
"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."
"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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