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Cathy DuPont
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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
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“Something unwanted came to life in me. It was not passion, but something maybe worse than that: memory. Of the one and only woman in my life. I did not know how she had emerged from underneath the sediment of years; she had not been so pretty as this woman, not even similar to her. Why did the one recall the other? I was more concerned with that distant one, who no longer existed, whom I had been forgetting and recalling for twenty years. She surfaced in my memory when I neither wanted nor needed her, bitter as absinthe. She had not appeared for a long time, so why did she come now? Was it because of this woman”
― Death and the Dervish
― Death and the Dervish

“The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses”
― Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!
― Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!

Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)

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