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“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
― The Best American Noir of the Century
― The Best American Noir of the Century
“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears”
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“Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")”
― The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
― The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
“It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Man’s 2024 Year in Books
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