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“There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous.
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
― The Best American Noir of the Century
― The Best American Noir of the Century
“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.
("Three O'Clock")”
― The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness
("Three O'Clock")”
― The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness
“I believe, whoever sees the Grail will find it agreeable. It charms all those of this land, they find it pleasant and agreeable; those who are able to remain with it and can bear its presence, when they see it they feel delight, they are as happy as a fish when a man holds it in his hand, and it can escape from his hand and return to swimming unconfined in the water.”
― Joseph of Arimathea
― Joseph of Arimathea
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