In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were … - James Ellroy

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Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. . . We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

James Ellroy

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1. 98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

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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.

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I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

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I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L. A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

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My guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.

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I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

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