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• To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
• With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
• Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
• A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
• I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
• Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
• I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
• What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until…
• It's awfully easy to be in love in jail
• If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you…
• Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
• You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

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