"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."
― James Ellroy
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Age
― James Ellroy
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- "Anybody who doesn’t know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
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- "I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."
More In Age
- "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."― Margaret Mead
- "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."― Plato
- "Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair."― Ira Gershwin