The man who read through all the complexities of daily news to pick out salient points and who then summed everything up in a few well-chosen words, artfully composed to fit a limited space—there was a consummate journalist and a father
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“And Hollywood did what Hollywood does best–it decided against a Disney adaptation of my novel because they thought it might make them look “anti-zoo” (I kid you not.)”
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
“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.”
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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.”
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“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
“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.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
Hardboiled American Crime and Worldwide Noir Fiction
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Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something mo ...more
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