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David Mccracken is currently reading

For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

by Ian Fleming

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“I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.”
― Robert B. Parker, Small Vices

tags: clint-eastwood, detectives, guns, humor, irony, machos, spenser

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“Now I've heard everyhing, I thought. Hired to find a person so her boyfriend would go to business school.”
― Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only

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“The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

tags: abyss, falling, know, mourn, past, vanishing, world

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“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: sense-of-wonder, universe

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“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

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