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    C. Mack Lewis
    “I'm keeping my socks on until I know what you're going to do.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis, Gunning For Angels
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    Raymond Chandler
    “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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    Raymond Chandler
    “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window
    tags: hard-boiled
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “I became a doctor so I could pursue a career as a writer.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: quotes
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “There is an animal joy to being young that you can only appreciate when you are old.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: quotes-about-life
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “Being a small business owner, I have become acutely aware of the price attached to everything from people to paperclips.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: quotes
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “If you're in bed and can't smell the bacon frying in the kitchen - you're rich.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: wealth
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “He's so dumb he couldn't find his way out of a birth canal.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: humorous-quotes
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “The fact that I know I'm a fool leaves me hope that I may not be,”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: life-quotes
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.
    Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
    tags: character, marriage, sex-and-men
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    Noel Langley
    “Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
    ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”
    ― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
    tags: going, oz, party, witch
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    Arzum Uzun
    “I killed my ex lovers
    and buried to my memories' grave.
    It is January
    And I am tired of being brave.”
    ― Arzum Uzun
    tags: grave, january, killer, love, lovers, murder, murderer
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “Enid had learned the hard way that adults were there to enforce ever-changing rules and to punish kids for breaking rules. The number one rule being that all rules were subject to change--and always in favor of the adult.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels
    tags: children, humor, opinion, punishment, rules, teenagers, unfair, unfairness-of-life
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “He was tired of pretty! Pretty had a horrible habit of spitting out babies.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels
    tags: babies, consequences, consequences-of-our-actions, life, life-lessons, pretty
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “There is always a younger, prettier girl right behind you. That's one thing every woman learns quick--whether you're in the business or not.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis, Black Market Angels
    tags: aging, aging-quotes, aging-women, competition-quotes, life, reality
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “Jaundice and black crap ain't going to scare me off the juice, kid. When you grow up and walk into the shit-storm that's waiting for your out there," Rose waved her cigarette at the window, "you'll be chink-yellow and shittin' black too.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels
    tags: alcoholics, character-quote, cigarettes-smoking, hard-boiled, jaundice, life, noir, noir-fiction, shit-storm
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “Rose jabbed her cigarette at Enid and said, "I served my time in LaLaLand and if any of those bastards tell you to talk into the mike and they pull out the yogurt cannon - just remember - you're a lady! Pull up your knickers, steal their wallet, and get the hell out of there!”
    ― C. Mack Lewis, Black Market Angels
    tags: advice-for-women, character-quote, funny-but-true, funny-quotations, funny-quotes, hollywood, hollywood-culture, humor, humourous-quote, noir
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #21
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “You couldn’t be more square if you had four corners and were wearing penny loafers.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: character-quotes, insult, square, uncool
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Are you okay?" asked Finisterre.
    "Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet.
    "Yes, I should imagine being attacked by a nun might be annoying.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot
    tags: annoyance, annoyed, attacked, nun, nuns
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    Warren Ellis
    “Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.”
    ― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
    tags: convent, nun, sex
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The more spiritually immature you are, the more likely you are to kill an animal or a plant unnecessarily.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: animal, animal-cruelty, animal-rights, cruelty, food, killing, plant, sadism, spirituality, survival
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    C. Mack Lewis
    “Why do you do it, Fiona?” Jack said, unable to stop himself from asking.
    Fiona gave him a surprised look. “Is it so hard to figure out?”
    Jack gazed at her, unable to put together the elegant lady who stood in front of him with the Fiona that Stella described as coming to her dungeon and having sessions with a broke cowboy.
    Fiona said, “I spent a lot of time and effort turning myself into a lady. In Stella’s dungeon, I can let out the other part of me—to play.”
    “Play?”
    Fiona gave a wicked grin and said, “Play isn’t the best word. Let’s just say that I unleash the barbarian Huntress that burns within my soul and I revel with animalistic joy in her heathen antics as she subjects weaker creatures to her every whim.”
    ― C. Mack Lewis
    tags: character-quote, dungeon, huntress, play, s-m
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    Laini Taylor
    “He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: belief, children, ghosts, magic
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    Sue Grafton
    “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

    "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

    "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”
    ― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice
    tags: ghosts, haunting, perception
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    Shirley Jackson
    “I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: ghost, haunted-houses, horror
    280 likes



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