Alec
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“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
― Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
― Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“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
“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
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Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Paranormal, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, adventure, pirates, westerns, steampunk, weird-west, historical-fantasy, urban-fantasy, pulp, noir, hard-boiled, science-fiction-fantasy, military-science-fiction, sword-and-sorcery, humor, comedy, short-stories, and folklore
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