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

James Ellroy

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James Ellroy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy theory books, most of which are outlandish. But what DeLillo posits - some rogue CIA guys - is the most dramatically sound, plausible explanation for it.
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Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
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If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.
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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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Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
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