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called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.
“She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn’t reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.”
― Trouble Is My Business
― Trouble Is My Business
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― The Dead
― The Dead
“Upon such slender threads as these do the fates of mortals hang”
― Zadig et autres contes
― Zadig et autres contes
“Si vede che il Creatore quando ha fatto il mondo avrà chiesto aiuto al Diavolo e gli avrà detto di fare la Sardegna.”
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“You’re a full portion of what I don’t like,’ she said. ‘Get out of my way.’ I didn’t move. She didn’t move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.”
― Trouble Is My Business
― Trouble Is My Business
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