“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
― Strange Wine
― Strange Wine
“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
― Flashman and the Mountain of Light
― Flashman and the Mountain of Light
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
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