Noir Quote by Scott B. Smith Download Open image ““By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”” — Scott B. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noir
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“I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
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“There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.” — Croft M. Pentz Copy Share Image
“The times in my life when something didn't feel completely right, but I went ahead and did it anyways... It usually turned out to… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“But the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do, I went on, is to actually do the right thing.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Doing the right thing had never felt more wrong than it did right then. Maybe that was how it always felt. I wouldn’t know.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I can’t think of anything but every wrong thing I’ve ever done.” — Ruthie Knox Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you may think you're doing the right thing, but it turns out to be the wrong thing. And you just have to live… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
“Stacy wasn't certain; she'd never bothered to pay attention to details like that, and was always regretting it, the half knowing, which felt worse… — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger’s tales of… — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes pointed at… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
