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A.J. Finn

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[Wikipedia] Daniel Mallory is an American author who writes crime fiction under the name A. J. Finn. His 2018 novel The Woman in the Window debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Woman in the Window was adapted into a feature film of the same name, directed by Joe Wright and featuring

Quotes by A.J. Finn

“Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

Life

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“Kind of guy who steps out of the shower to piss,”

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“My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft.”

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“Streaks of rainwater like varicose veins slide down the umbrella.”

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“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about. —Shadow of a Doubt (1943)”

Nobody knows

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“best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished…

Cinema

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“The definition of insanity, Fox, Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting…

Definition of insanity

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“Now, movies that postdate Hitch: The Vanishing, with its sucker-punch finale. Frantic, Polanski’s ode to the master. Side Effects, which begins as…

Cinema

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“Hey, when’s your birthday?” “You going to buy me something?” “Easy there.” “Coming up, actually,” I say. “So’s mine.” “November eleventh.” She…

Birthday

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“Night Must Fall,” he reads. “It’s a good one to start with. Suspenseful but not scary.”

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“Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Saboteur, The Big Clock . . . We lived in monochrome those nights. For me, it was a chance to revisit old…

Movie

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“I think of Dr. Brulov in Spellbound: “My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not…

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