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- The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in…
- From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from…
- Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.…
- I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make…
- She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose…
- Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
- I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the…
- Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end…
- I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
- Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.
- Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
- Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the…
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