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Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

1 " Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

2 " A day without writing was a little death. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

3 " Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it? "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

4 " Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

5 " Everyone in the world needs two, three jobs,” I said, without hesitation. “One job isn’t enough, just as one life isn’t enough. I want to have a dozen of both.” “Bull’s-eye. Doctors should dig ditches. Ditchdiggers ought to run kindergartens one day a week. Philosophers should wash dishes in a greasy spoon two nights out of ten. Mathematicians should blow whistles at high school gyms. Poets should drive trucks for a change of menu and police detectives—” “Should own and operate the Garden of Eden,” I said, quietly. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

6 " What should I do?"
"Throw up in your typewriter every morning."
"Yeah."
"Clean up every noon. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

7 " With nothing trembles.
To be afraid of nothing for no reason. And having to live with that nothing until dawn. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

8 " We all just gave up on that and stayed friends.

Мы просто перестали об этом говорить и остались друзьями. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

9 " There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

10 " Whenever I am very happy or very sad or very embarrassed, I cram my mouth with sweets and litter the breezeway with discards.

Когда я очень счастлив, или очень огорчен, или смущен, я всегда набиваю рот сладостями и бросаю обертки где попало. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

11 " Will power is the answer. Will power. No white bread, no Nestle's Crunch bars... I flinched and felt the last of the bars melting in my pockets.

На все вопросы ответ один — сила воли! Исключительно сила воли. Никаких булок, никаких шоколадных плиток… Я моргнул и почувствовал, как последняя из шоколадок тает у меня в кармане. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

12 " Time only works well in one direction. Back. I control the past. I’ll be damned if I know what to do with the present, and to hell with the future. I’m not going to be there, don’t want to go there, and would hate you if you made me. It’s a perfect life. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

13 " I took the candy wrappers shamefacedly, and felt the extra ten pounds sag around my middle as I held these flags of defeat.

Я стыдливо взял конфетные обертки — эти свидетельства моего поражения, — чувствуя, как еще десять лишних фунтов нарастают у меня на боках. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

14 " one night I met up with Death’s friend and didn’t know it. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

15 " By night the wires on the high poles tell evil tales in the dripping mist. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)

16 " He wanted to be seen. He wished to drown me in his need. "

― Ray Bradbury , Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)