I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
From Ross MacDonald
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Money costs too much.
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?
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