55 Quotes About Noir-fiction
- Author Oliver Dean Spencer
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THE POUNDING RAIN HAD STOPPED as suddenly as it had begun. Sheets of silver green neon clung hungrily to the moist black asphalt like some reptilian skin.
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- Author Ed Lynskey
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My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay.
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- Author M S M Barkawitz
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I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé’s eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk.
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- Author M S M Barkawitz
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So why not a woman, too—if I was dating her?
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- Author M S M Barkawitz
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I was a small fish in a big sea of amorous deceit.
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- Author M S M Barkawitz
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You’re lucky to have that face. But it doesn’t make you happy.
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- Author L. Joseph Shosty
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The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left, but she had a hardness to her face. Money and bad men were the only things that left that much stone in a woman. I nudged my cup in her direction, and she served her purpose in life.
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- Author Lily Gardner
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There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn't one of those. Lammers was one of those crack-in-the-ass guys ten months pregnant with a beer baby.
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- Author Lily Gardner
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about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.
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