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Thomas Griesedieck
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Clement said it was like conditioning, prepar-ing for the ball-clutching moments of life while building your sphincter muscle. After lying in front of a freight train you can lie in bed in your underwear while two cops are visiting, asking
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“Weird as tits on a bishop.”
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan
“Not before lunch. I’m the new-type detective.”
― The Moving Target
― The Moving Target
“Brock called himself Jamaican but had never set foot on the island. He was as American as folding money and war.”
― The Night Gardener
― The Night Gardener
“he all at once understood that we are an accident of happenstance on a speck of dust in a blink of time in the big nothing. It didn’t fill him with meaninglessness. It made him feel that consciousness was a rare and recent temporary accident. And that meant life is about what you did with it right now. It infused him with ambition.”
― Heat 2
― Heat 2
“Brock liked the old stories about outlaws like Red. Men who just didn’t give a good fuck about the law or if and when they’d go down. Having other men talk about you in bars and on street corners after you were dead and gone, that’s what made a life worth living. Otherwise, wasn’t anything about you that was special. ’Cause everybody, straight and criminal alike, ended up covered in dirt. For that reason alone it was important to leave a powerful name behind.”
― The Night Gardener
― The Night Gardener
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