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Paul Dabrowski
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The air was heavily spiced with an odor compounded of equal parts of perspiration and cheap perfume.
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“Hemingway’s judgment on people, that the competent guy does it on his own and the incompetents lean on each other.” In”
― The Mourner
― The Mourner
“Adventure is the unexpected experience of discovery, of course; but it is also a kind of death, an end of innocence.”
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
“Obsessive and easily bored, he was incapable of being sexually faithful to any woman. He reveled in being a wanderer, an eavesdropper, a stranger”
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
“Walter Jelinek was a man, but he looked like a car, the kind of old junker car that had been in some bad accidents so that now the frame is bent, the wheels don’t line up any more, the whole vehicle sags to one side and pulls to that side, and the brakes are oatmeal.”
― Breakout
― Breakout
“The world was filling up with people, it seemed to him, who pulled their punches everywhere they went in life. Light beer, decaf coffee, low-sodium seltzer.”
― Nobody Runs Forever
― Nobody Runs Forever
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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Hardboiled American Crime and Worldwide Noir Fiction
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Pulp Fiction
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Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
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