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  1. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    He was wearing an American Legion poppy on his lapel – probably purchased from the wino legionnaire who slept in the Hall of Records parking lot – a man he had once vigorously prosecuted for vagrancy. The
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  2. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine. It was his flat-voiced "Cherchez la femme" that still haunts me. Because our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia.
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  3. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Pulling away, I realized I had no place to go and nothing I wanted to do except satisfy my curiosity about a woman who was coming on like gangbusters and a big load of grief.
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  4. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    I told lies and wondered where I would go if my own past was all I had left.
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  5. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.
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  6. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Silverlake-Echo was several miles due est of Mount lee, a hilly area with lots of twisting streets, greenery and seclusion, the kind of terrain a necrophiliac might find soothing.
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  7. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Sometimes I felt connections begging to be made, sometimes I cursed myself for not having ten percent more gray matter, sometimes the report carbons just made me think of Lee.
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  8. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them
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  9. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is tight.
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  10. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint."
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  11. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Where's your sketch pad?" I asked. … "I gave that up," Kay said. "I wasn't very good, so I changed my major." "To what?" "To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history." "I like a woman who knows what she wants." Kay smiled. "So do I, but I don't know any.
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  12. James Ellroy _ The Black Dahlia

    Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.
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