“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“You might say that the universe plays the blues.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
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