Affair Quote by Dashiell Hammett

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him…

— James Joyce

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

— Albert Camus

...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

— Larissa Ione

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost his mind…

— Paul Auster

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

— Terry Pratchett

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death…

— William Shakespeare

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as…

— Kim Edwards

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— haruki murakami

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between…

— Mario Puzo

“...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked…

— Don Dellilo

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

— Ben Bradlee