Noir Fiction Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Noir Fiction

Noir Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books — Steen Langstrup

Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week. — Steen Langstrup

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

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

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes. — Megan Abbott

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps. — Andrew Vachss

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it. — James A. Newman

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

Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. — R.J. Leahy

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

Carrying a shotgun makes you less amusing. — Barry Graham

You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"A yes or no one. — Todd Morr

You always know when somebody's dead. — Kevin Bergeron

I rode a streetcar to the edge of the city limits, then I started to walk, swinging the old thumb whenever I saw a car coming. — Jim Thompson

You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write. — Verge Le Noir

Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that. — Ed Lynskey

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars. — Will Christopher Baer

That was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity. — Lily Gardner

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

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat. — Adrian McKinty

No whiskey, no religion, nothing. — Charles Willeford

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

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

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

She was a cute as a washtub. — Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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