"Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs."

-- Anthony Boucher

#Writing Quotes #Objectivity Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“You should know that I lead, not follow”
“Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.”
“I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.”
“I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not many people knows That leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as I know it... And I guess I got no choice but to be a poet.”

Source : Song: Headaches and Woes
“You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality.”

Source : George Inness, Leo G. Mazow, Rachael Ziady DeLue (1999). “George Inness, the 1880s and 1890s”
“I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'”
“Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”

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