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    Brian Azzarello
    “After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.”
    ― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 5: The Counterfifth Detective
    tags: crime-fiction, graphic-novel, noir-style
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    Brian Azzarello
    “The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?”
    ― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 8: The Hard Way
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    Garth Ennis
    “Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.”
    ― Garth Ennis
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    Elmore Leonard
    “I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.”
    ― Elmore Leonard, LaBrava
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    Kazuo Koike
    “I have decided to escape, to defy the shogun. Today I will begin walking the road to hell. But you will choose your own path. So, soon you may be seeing heaven. Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball and you join your mother, in death. You don’t understand my words, but you must choose. So… come boy, choose life or death.”
    ― Kazuo Koike
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    Raymond Chandler
    “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Matt Wagner
    “I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.”
    ― Matt Wagner, Grendel: War Child
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
    ― Raymond Chandler
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    Stephen King
    “The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: inspirational
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    David Levithan
    “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
    ― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: homicide, suicide
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    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: individuality
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    Kazuo Koike
    “A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.”
    ― Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road
    tags: father, fatherhood, love, son
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    Kazuo Koike
    “True joy is to take pleasure
    in one's own accomplishments....”
    ― Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 5: Black Wind
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  • #14
    Alan Moore
    “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
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    Jim Thompson
    “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
    ― Jim Thompson
    tags: noir
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    “People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: television, writing
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    “You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: humor, malediction
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    Jim Thompson
    “There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
    ― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: character, education, morality
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: advice, americanism, english-as-a-second-language, immigration, politics, usa, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: anger
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Harlan Ellison
    “Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: humor, writing
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    Henry Rollins
    “Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.”
    ― Henry Rollins
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    Henry Rollins
    “Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
    ― Henry Rollins
    tags: heart, life
    922 likes



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