Twilight Man Quotes

“and named Harrison vice president.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Will had broken his arm playing golf and been forced to wear a cast.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“simulated drowning,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“like so many diarists, Harrison probably didn’t turn to his journal when he was happy as much as when he wasn’t.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Abwehr, the Nazis’ civilian counterintelligence agency.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“With few exceptions, the men who are running the government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“$150 million,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“This calamity, though, was easily managed by ordering another $45,000 worth of marble and travertine.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“2010, when the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, allowing unlimited and untraceable contributions from corporations and other entities to flood US elections.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Mark Twain wrote, “With forty years’ experience of human assfulness and vanity at banquets, I have never seen anything of the sort that could remotely approach the assfulness and complacency of this coarse and vulgar and incomparably ignorant peasant’s glorification of himself.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Soon the natural amphitheater became known as the Bowl, so called for the shape of the land, not the now-iconic band shell.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“A time-honored tactic of fighting gossip is simply to produce more gossip,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“two letters, both unsigned with no return address.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Douglas Ullman,”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“famed attorney Earl Rogers, a dandy, drunk, and spectacularly brilliant defense attorney, who also kept an office there. Rogers’s courtroom antics drew packed crowds and provided the inspiration for Perry Mason.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“Galena”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“people and their desires were raw material to be turned into commodities.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“In America, a frontier isn’t simply a line between two regions or between what is known and unknown as much as it is a boundary between a resource that hasn’t been monetized and one that has.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire

“This is a game to me. If I were to stop it I would die.”
― Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire