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When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: Away Down Failing Get Hollywood Lies Live Meaner Never Out Place Than You Your

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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

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Topics: Exceeded Failure Far Hopeless Joys Me Path Plight Success

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Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

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Topics: Enough First-Rate Knew Me Never Producer Tough Within Would

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I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: About Anything Appalled Attorneys Balanced Defense Doing Guilty Made Person Pretense Reporting Who Win Would

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I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: Been Breath Drama Dramatic Experience High Last Life Little Lived Low Nothing Ordinary Points Terrible Very Want

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I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: Always Angeles Back Because Friends Going Home Los Los Angeles Love Many Years

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My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: About Crazy Drove Famous Father Heart Him Man Me Something Surgeon Wonderful

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I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: Attended Courtroom Daughter Enraged Had Me Never Trial Until Witnessed

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You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: About Access Been Enough Entire Entire Life Fortunate Life Powerful Rich Seat Write You

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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

~Dominick Dunne

Topics: Fair Forum Kind Right Story Think Type Vanity Writing I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 29th, 1925

Died: August 26th, 2009

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