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.
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.
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.
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.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
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.
The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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