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"I like this book, and I especially like the title, which pretty well sums up the foul nature of life in the USA in these first few bloody years of the post-American century. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else." — Apr 04, 2013 11:46AM
"I like this book, and I especially like the title, which pretty well sums up the foul nature of life in the USA in these first few bloody years of the post-American century. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else." — Apr 04, 2013 11:46AM
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"...when they were done, there came a stretch of minutes in which they lay and held each other in the quiet majesty of long marriage, forgot themselves in shared sadness and forgiveness for everything they'd inflicted on each other, and rested." — Apr 01, 2013 11:14PM
"...when they were done, there came a stretch of minutes in which they lay and held each other in the quiet majesty of long marriage, forgot themselves in shared sadness and forgiveness for everything they'd inflicted on each other, and rested." — Apr 01, 2013 11:14PM
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"In life we have to make adjustments because everything is always changing...in every instant there's a new universe or a new me about to be born." — Apr 01, 2013 10:52PM
"In life we have to make adjustments because everything is always changing...in every instant there's a new universe or a new me about to be born." — Apr 01, 2013 10:52PM
“The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.”
― Mildred Pierce
― Mildred Pierce
“Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.”
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“People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.”
― The Dude and the Zen Master
― The Dude and the Zen Master
“I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.”
― Double Indemnity
― Double Indemnity
“Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.”
― The Butterfly
― The Butterfly
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