“Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.”
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― Black Betty
“He had a gun in every room of the house. They were like good friends who were always down to do bad things.”
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― Blacktop Wasteland
“What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?”
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― Nightmare Alley
“She had a teddy bear in her arms and murder in her eyes.”
― She Rides Shotgun
― She Rides Shotgun
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