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'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap towards him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake.' #Drive #JamesSallis

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'Léopoldville: a funny sort of name for a funny-looking sort of place.' #Crush #FrédéricDard

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'When the phone rang, Parker was in the kitchen, killing a man.' #Firebreak #RichardStark

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'I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy's bar.' #DevilinaBlueDress #WalterMosley

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'The pebbled glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: "Philip Marlowe ... Investigations".' #TheLittleSister #RaymondChandler

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'People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.' #charlesportis #TrueGrit

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I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there.' #Molloy #Beckett

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I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there.' #Molloy #Beckett

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'Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.' #Ulysses #JamesJoyce

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'Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.' #BackWhenWeWereGrownups #AnneTyler

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'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.' #ICapturetheCastle #DodieSmith

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'Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.' #BrightonRock #GrahamGreene

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'The air out here is mean with cold.' #MyConeyIslandBaby #BillyOCallaghan

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'You killed her to rob her, didn't you?' #MaigretandtheWineMerchant #GeorgeSimenon

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'The last words I said to my wife: "Please don't leave". #KillRedacted #AnthonyGood

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'The year came and receded like any other, leaving its flotsam of the grotesque, the memorable, the trivial.' #Docherty #WilliamMcIlvaney

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'In winter all things die.' #TheBlackSoul #LiamOFlaherty