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“I don’t want any insurance,” I said. “And you wouldn’t want to sell me any. I’m a bad risk.”
A favor’s no good unless you pay for it. One way or the other, you always do.
certain number of people get pistol permits and a certain number of others buy illegal guns. Then some of them get drunk and shoot their wives. None of them ever seems to wind up nailing the Slasher.
He’s watched the neighborhood become positively chic around him. Fortunately this particular building retains its essential tackiness.
Apartments are too hard to find. Who can afford to be superstitious?” “Nobody,” Rolfe said. “Not in this market.”
‘Paranoiacs have enemies, too.’
“Married people always kill one another. Sometimes it takes them fifty years.”
“There’s nothing you can imagine that somebody hasn’t done at one time or another.
Half the city was carrying something to protect it from the other half.
A photograph of the suspect bore a startling resemblance to the police artist’s sketch that had run earlier. That doesn’t happen too often.
Nobody decent lives there on purpose,
