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Dashiell Hammett Combo: The Glass Key, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, The Adventures Of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse

by Dashiell Hammett

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The Secret Teachings of All Ages

by Manly P. Hall

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Sanctuary

by William Faulkner

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Patrick’s Notes & Highlights

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

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Prohibition—shooting down people just because they might be transporting liquor—no, that couldn’t happen in America! Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours!

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Patrick’s Quotes

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

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“The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. —RAYMOND CHANDLER, NOTEBOOKS”
― Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

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“We’re not fighting for a scrap of sharecropper immortality with the strings hanging off it like Mafioso spaghetti. We want the whole tamale. The Johnsons are taking over the Western Lands. We built it with our brains and our hands. We paid for it with our blood and our lives. It’s ours and we’re going to take it. And we are not applying in triplicate to the Immortality Control Board. Anybody gets in our way we will get our communal back against a rock or a tree and fight the way a raccoon will fight a fucking dog.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

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“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art.”
― Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

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“He remembers his fathers last words: “Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you’ll never wear a lawman’s badge.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

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