“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
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“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
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“my family's going to eat as long as anybody eats. What they're trying to do is starve you Conchs out of here so they can burn down the shacks and put up apartments and make this a tourist town. That's what I hear. I hear they're buying up lots, and then after the poor people are starved out and gone somewhere else to starve some more they're going to come in and make it into a beauty spot for tourists.”
― To Have and Have Not
― To Have and Have Not
“Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
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