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1 " He checked himself without really looking at himself. He was ten pounds heavier and a few dozen hairs grayer than he'd been the year before. He knew that. He didn't need to see it again. "
― Steve Hockensmith , Blarney: 12 Tales of Lies, Crime & Mystery
2 " The Irishman raises his beer and says "sluncha" or "slawn chair" or something like that, obviously a Gaelic toast, and we bellow "sluncha!" and clink glasses and take long, deep, manly, Irish pub drinks. "
3 " I instantly regretted it. Cynicism is a decadent pose, a façade of apathetic ennui that's antithetical to the committed idealism of the true internationalist. But when you're a private eye, it sort of gets to be a habit. "
4 " Property being theft and all, I felt free to help myself. "
5 " I figured at least three families could live in there comfortably. And after the Revolution, they would. "
6 " The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery. "
7 " Nobody in this town writes dialogue that bad on purpose. Not unless they've got a hidden agenda…or maybe a contract with Universal. "
