Quotes - John Lansing (jelansing) (Marina Del Rey, CA) Showing 1-30 of 68

#1

“I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.”
― Walter Mosley

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#2

“Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.”
― John Sandford, Rough Country

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#3

“Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
― tennessee williams

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#4

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
― Woody Allen

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#5

“There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
― Woody Allen

tags: ethics

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#6

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#7

“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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#8

“Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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#9

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: death, humour

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#10

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#11

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

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#12

“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

tags: stating-the-obvious

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#13

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: mysteries

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#14

“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
― Dasheill Hammett

tags: humor

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#15

“Tall, aren't you?
I didn't mean to be.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#16

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

tags: blonde, sex-appeal

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#17

“Nora: "How do you feel?"
Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

tags: cocktail-banter

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#18

“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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#19

“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: jerks

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#20

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

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#21

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#22

“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#23

“You're broke, eh?"
I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: being-poor, money, poverty

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#24

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

tags: art, creativity, crime, critic, criticism, detectives, mystery

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#25

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#26

“Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted.”
― Robert Crais, The Two Minute Rule

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#27

“As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.”
― Robert Crais, The Forgotten Man

tags: alcohol, men, regret, scotch, wisdom

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#28

“Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men”
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day

tags: gods, men

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#29

“I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.”
― Lawrence Block, Manhattan Noir

tags: noir

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#30

“I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.”
― James Lee Burke, Creole Belle

tags: aging, humor, pick-up-lines

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