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"He who hunts monsters should beware of becoming one himself..."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
""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 (The Big Sleep)
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— Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep)
"He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway."
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)
" "If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said."
— Richard Stark (Dirty Money)
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said."
— Richard Stark (Dirty Money)
"The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better. "
— Ed Lynskey (Pelham Fell Here)
— Ed Lynskey (Pelham Fell Here)
"'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."
— Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
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."
— Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policemen's Union)
"A sinner once passed away will never return, but sins will never vanish and the love will never die."
— Les Soldats Noir
— Les Soldats Noir
"The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk."
— Jonathan Lethem (Gun, with Occasional Music)
— Jonathan Lethem (Gun, with Occasional Music)
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