Get Real Quotes

“Dortmunder followed Kelp as he carried the tray down along the bar past the regulars, where the third was now saying, “The idea of the flat tax is, you just pay the same as one month’s rent.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race,”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“Since the conversation had deteriorated to a loop, Dortmunder abandoned it and looked out his window instead at the thin sunlight out there, until Murch’s Mom made the right turn onto Eighth Avenue and sank contentedly into the perpetual blockage there, a traffic snarl well into its second century, running—or not running—from below Penn Station up to above the Port Authority bus terminal.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he’d get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, “If you got it, give it to us.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“He doesn’t have a name, that anybody knows. He’s called My Nephew.” “I’ve heard of this guy,” Tiny said. “He’s not somebody you ask to hold your coat.” “That’s true,” Kelp said. “On the other hand, he doesn’t pay by check.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real

“When you’re committing a felony,” Dortmunder pointed out, “the idea is, you don’t want witnesses. What you want is privacy. And you especially don’t want the entire television-watching population of America for a witness.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Get Real