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Dashiell Hammett
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

John Banville
“I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.”
John Banville, The Untouchable

John Banville
“Auden wrote somewhere that no matter what the age of the company, he was always convinced he was the youngest in the room; me, too.”
John Banville, The Untouchable

William Gay
She said she loved him and he had no cause to doubt it.
They were like a drug in each other’s veins. A crazy bad-news drug, their hands trembled with the hypo, the needle prodded for an un-collapsed vein.
The drug they used was rare and dangerous with unknown and catastrophic side effects – you couldn’t buy it, it had to be stolen under cover of darkness when other folks were asleep or their attention had wandered.

William Gay

John Banville
“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
John Banville, The Untouchable

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