James Ellroy Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

  Past, Self, Missing

• 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.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Past, Lakes

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

• 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

  Believe, Character, Past

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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