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speaking out, what are women said to be? ‘Strident’; they ‘whinge’ and they ‘whine’.
“Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.”
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“You grew up in Dublin in the seventies and eighties. It was as white as white could be. Sure, we’ve diversified now, but back then, if it snowed we couldn’t feckin’ find each other.”
― The Quiet Man
― The Quiet Man
“She reflected that the Mad Max movies had been skillfully edited to erase the actual tedium of driving through outback Australia.”
― The Island
― The Island
“Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.”
― I Hear the Sirens in the Street
― I Hear the Sirens in the Street
“My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.”“Sax-a-phobic, are we?”“Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.”
― Angels in the Moonlight
― Angels in the Moonlight
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