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Richard Stark

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[Wikipedia] Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each

Quotes by Richard Stark

“Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle.”

Hard-boiled-detective

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“People get used to everything but being dead.”

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“You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of…

Money

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“His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and…

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“Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you.…

Third time

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“Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.”

Religion

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“Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.”

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“I'm only the messenger!" "Now you're the message", Parker told him and shot him.”

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“For you, that tree is dead.”

Parker

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“I'm going to drink his blood, I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs…

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“The operation was shaping up to have good men in it, and with good men in a deal it was tough for…

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“What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?”

Problem solving

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“The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap…

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“Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.”

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