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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
There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty.
— Ross Macdonald
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
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
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
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
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
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[on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.
— Adam Sweeting
Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity.
— Jeff Shear
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
— Robert Rodriguez
Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.
— Elliott Colla
It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
— Rob Thomas
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
— Raymond Chandler
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
— Adrian McKinty
I can't believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
You right," Hawk said. "Couldn't happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress." "Exactly," I said. "Impossible. — Robert B. Parker
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
This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
— Henry Mosquera
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's only crazy if we fail.
— Henry Mosquera
There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.
— Ruth Bainbridge
You always know when somebody's dead.
— Kevin Bergeron
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 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
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 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
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
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
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
— Daniel Woodrell
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
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
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens
I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.
— Scott B. Smith