Able Quote by James Sallis

“Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.”

James Sallis

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“You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.”

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“Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.”

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“Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.”

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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he…

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“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over…

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“We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.”

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Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.…

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“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”

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Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

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Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

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What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a…

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