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Kelly

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The worlds of movies, soap operas, or cartoons were already so meticulous that there were no blanks left for me to fill in. These stories on screen existed exactly as they had been filmed and drawn. For example, if a book had the ...more

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Kelly’s Quotes

“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

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“Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. ”
― Charles Willeford

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“Nothing human surprises me.”
― Charles Willeford

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“Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?”
― Martin Amis, Lionel Asbo: State of England

tags: great-first-lines

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