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The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated. — Jonathan Lethem

You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender — John Geddes

It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor. — Deji Olukotun

The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches. — Erin Kelly

I like two men, two guns that kind of thing, I don't do subtle. — C.S. Boag

I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible. — Kim Ji-woon

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir. — Olivier Megaton

F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.
Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd. — Steen Langstrup

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. — Christopher G. Moore

Let's just agree that I make my own decisions, and I will give you the respect you earn. Stop bossing me around. Also, stop holding my hand. Got it? — D.R. Graham

...for people like me, People Who Drink Too Much Pinot Noir and Dance Dance Dance. Always the Dancing. I drink Pinot Noir. I Dance. I am Garbage. — Pablo Fenjves

The only thing that ever leaves this place is that muddy water in the Rappahannock. — Randolph Randy Camp

I couldn't see why it shouldn't be my one hundred dollars. — Walter Mosley

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. — Richard Stark

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. — Raymond Chandler

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies. — Camille Paglia

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails. — S.J. Rozan

You do know I'm not psychic, right?'
Dash looked down at her. 'Joy...you do know that normal people don't see ghosts, right? — Amy Andrews

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. — Raymond E. Feist

The Filipino houseboy was conscious now — Charles Willeford

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum — Dennis Lehane

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane

The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. — Richard Brautigan

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. — James Ellroy

Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. — David Goodis

Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity. — Jeff Shear

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them. — Cornell Woolrich

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. — Robert Rodriguez

If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said. — Richard Stark

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays. — Elliott Colla

This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from. — Henry Mosquera

You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress."
"Exactly," I said. "Impossible. — Robert B. Parker

There was nearly an inch of snow accumulated and Washington was rapidly sinking into hysteria. — Robert B. Parker

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing. — Ross Macdonald

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. — Raymond Chandler

Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life's classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker. — Robert B. Parker

I can't believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of. — Mark Crutchfield

Jesus Christ," she said. "You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer. — Robert B. Parker

Now take it easy. This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?"
I felt it. I took it easy. — Ross Macdonald

It's only crazy if we fail. — Henry Mosquera

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. — Richard Brautigan

No whiskey, no religion, nothing. — Charles Willeford

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both. — V. Alexander

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does. — Raymond Chandler

The rain fell like dead bullets. — Scott Nicholson

Some people were born just so they could be buried. — Donald Ray Pollock

Maya, Indian goddess of illusions. Siren of shipwrecked sailors. If only you lactated Pinot Noir, you'd be perfect. — Rex Pickett

I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. — Raymond Chandler

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed) — Cornell Woolrich

Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered. — James J. Caterino

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence. — Robert B. Parker

About Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them. — Lily Gardner

She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens. — Raymond Chandler

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that. — James Ellroy

You and Galileo," I said.
"Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said. — Robert B. Parker

Machines can't lie," I said, lying through my circuits. — Adam Christopher

The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord's name without taking her eyes off the book she was reading. — Andrew Cotto

I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china. — Clifton Adams

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. — Claire Denis

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary. — Ross Macdonald

Candy nodded absently.
"Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?"
"A gun," I said. — Robert B. Parker

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. — Raymond Chandler

I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest. — Raymond Chandler

Smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances. — Terry Pratchett

She was a cute as a washtub. — Raymond Chandler

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head. — Henry Mosquera

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. — Frank Miller

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies? — Todd Morr

Heaven wouldn't be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a slow clown in a two-bit rodeo. — Joe LaFlam

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber. — Brian Azzarello

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
("New York Blues") — Cornell Woolrich

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. — Timothy Holme

A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples. — Amy Andrews

Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child. — Robert B. Parker

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back. — Steen Langstrup

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake — James M. Cain

They're testing you to see if you can follow orders, and you're failing with flying f**king colours. — D.R. Graham

May they run free forever and grow back their limbs! — Henry Mosquera

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman. — James M. Cain

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum

Jack ordered a bottle of pinot noir, and they perused the menu while they chatted. "So you were at Georgetown." Melanie said it as a statement. — Tom Clancy

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained. — Daniel Woodrell

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want. — Richard Stark

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. — Daniel Woodrell

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. — Raymond Chandler

The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning ... — Richard K. Morgan

And Quirk's a captain now," he said.
"Captain Quirk?"
The motorcycle cop grinned.
"Captain Quirk," he said. — Robert B. Parker

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir. — Leo Rosten

Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face. — Randolph Randy Camp

I'm sleeping with a Harvard grad," I said.
"The Emory of the North," Becker said. — Robert B. Parker

Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven. — Robert B. Parker

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet. — Raymond Chandler

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said. — Raymond Chandler

In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball. — Ed Lynskey

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are. — J.P. Bloch

I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more. — Scott B. Smith