Thomas Pynchon  - Quotes

 Tito snored away on the other bed. Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were Toobfreex at play in the video universe, the tropic isle, the Long Branch Saloon, the Starship Enterprise, Hawaiian crime fantasies, cute kids in make-believe living rooms with invisible audiences to laugh at everything they did, baseball highlights, Vietnam footage, helicopter gunships and firefights, and midnight jokes, and talking celebrities, and a slave girl in a bottle, and Arnold the pig, and here was Doc, on the natch, caught in a low-level bummer he couldn 

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James Ellroy  - Quotes

 Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man. 

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Raymond Chandler  - Quotes

 Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. 

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Raymond Chandler  - Quotes

 You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. 

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Raymond Chandler  - Quotes

 He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. 

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John Ridley  - Quotes

 Kraop was the sound that I heard. Heard it twice--kraop, kraop--one time each for my two fingers that got broke. I heard my bones pop before I felt anything, gunshot-loud they echoed in my ears. Maybe that was the tip-off what'd just happened was going to hurt like hell. Wrong. It hurt so bad, I didn't feel a thing. 

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Michael Chabon  - Quotes

 Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'



She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
 

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Dashiell Hammett  - Quotes

 The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered 

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Richard Stark  - Quotes

 If you leave me here, 

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