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L.A.: Come on vacation, go ho...

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Tell me anything. Tell me eve...

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Closure is a preposterous con...

Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I always cringe when a male f...

I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

And the only forms of sociali...

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Sometimes I'll leave the hous...

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I begin by assembling notes o...

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Other people, some other writ...

Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

For a much lauded writer, I'm...

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

She quoted a dead playwright ...

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

"War gives men a plain-and-si...

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I kn...

Joe Wambaugh's a friend. I know him only casually, but I like him a lot. I think he likes my books.

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I almost had an intransigent ...

I almost had an intransigent mental spirit. I always wanted things.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I'm way past the idea of usin...

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many people, I tend to think most people, feel that way. Since I don't have to worry about it, I'm happy.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I don't have children. I serv...

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

History is a state of yearnin...

History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.

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I think I'm out of crime fict...

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

Some men get the world, some ...

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

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I don't think I will write an...

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

I was a WASP kid going to a h...

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.

James Ellroy 100 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....