Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
The more you reason the less you create.
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.
I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
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