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  1. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, "Hello, Mother." She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pulled away and flashed a magazine. A "picture bride" rag. Choose a photograph and send for a young woman. She'll be shipped from Japan. Include the five-hundred-dollar steamship fare. All brides guaranteed to be fertile and subservient. "I've told you, Mother. I'm not going to marry a fifteen-year-old girl out of a brothel." "You too old to be bachelor. Neighbors get suspicious.
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  2. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Treason is ideology and free speech perverted. Seditious thought and its reckless public expression is a grave criminal offense that fully sanctions me in this action that you allege to be precipitous, presumptuous and subversive in and of itself, so help me fucking God, I know it to be true.
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  3. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    These tracts are inherently unradical and fail to critique the systematic bigotry that has fueled this counteraggression for the past two horrible days. This cravenly jingoistic display of yours is an insufficient response to the injustice currently being perpetrated on this very street.
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  4. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Cantwell said, "We'll have to have Bill explain this new war to us, Dud. Father Coughlin lays the blame on the coons and the sheenie bankers, and I tend to agree with him." Dudley said, "America and Ireland first, Your Eminence. You know where I stand on that." Cantwell said, "Let's get shit-faced drunk and defame that Jew shitheel in the White House. Franklin Double-Cross Rosenfeld, his name is.
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  5. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    J. J. Cantwell said, "We're three Catholic men relieved of our duties. We're going to get shit-faced drunk and defame the Prottys and the kikes." Parker ushered them in. His Eminence was sixty-six and rambunctious. Dudley doted on him. They met in Ireland, circa 1919. Dudley killed British soldiers. Cantwell funneled gun money.
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  6. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. -Proverbs 3:31
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  7. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Padre Divino, concedimi una tregua. Accetta la mia fraudolenta rettitudine. Revoca l'arroganza che mi lega agli intrighi di altri e mi conduce verso orridi errori e unioni sbagliate. Tempera la mia ambizione con la Tua grazia, Signore.
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  8. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    All I have is withering perception. Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate.
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  9. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Yes, my friends-it's becoming Jewniversally apparent.
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  10. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    Claire De Haven and the company cared for the plight of the world. Claire De Haven and the company extolled tyrants and lived for adversarial cliché.
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  11. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    There is no proportion. Pearl Harbor took care of that.
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  12. James Ellroy _ Perfidia

    I loved men and was going mad with suppressed desire. It pushed me into a series of affairs with dubious jazz musicians. Sex was not what I imagined. It was tension, scent and prosaic misalliance. It was sweet and sad revelation, and all expectation dashed.
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