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Indeed, some of his contemporaries obstinately refused to be swept up in the fuss about his great walk and instead issued dismissive harrumphs.
“Catastrophe can be a course correction, you know?”
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“Anna wondered what it was that was so alienating about cars. Somehow, more than any othter machine, they seemed to create a world of their own, a mobile pack-rat midden full of personal artifacts that utterly separated man from the natural environment he hurtled through.”
― Ill Wind
― Ill Wind
“Psssh. This is where you females get in your own way. If a rich woman came up o me today and said, 'Marcus, you handsome devil, let me take you away from all this. A man as fine and smart and wonderful and good in bed as you shouldn't have to work.' Well, I wouldn't say, 'But how will I prove myself as a man if I don't work?' I would say, 'Sign me up! Just let me keep doing my radio show, please.”
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
― Anita de Monte Laughs Last
“You'd think she'd be relieved," I said. "From what I hear, he beat the shit out of her."
"Not at first. She was crazy about him when he first got out. Still is, actually."
"That's probably why she called him the world's biggest asshole at the funeral," I remarked.”
― D is for Deadbeat
"Not at first. She was crazy about him when he first got out. Still is, actually."
"That's probably why she called him the world's biggest asshole at the funeral," I remarked.”
― D is for Deadbeat
“I found Shaw's place easy enough, but had to drive past the address and park around the corner to avoid the residential parking signs and all the dib holders -- old office chairs, busted baby strollers, orange traffic cones -- sitting in shoveled-out spots, waiting for their shovelers' return. The practice of saving your spot on a city street was technically illegal, but so were a lot of things the city let slide until somebody made a big stink about it and ruined it for everybody else.”
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