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I liked women as a shape to dress. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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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. ↗

— James Ellroy

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Nature never breaks her own laws. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

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I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life. ↗

— James Ellroy

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Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. ↗

— James Ellroy

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