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James Ellroy

"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."

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"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."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."
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"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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"I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people."
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