"The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them."

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Source : "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

Duane Swierczynski

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“Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.”
“There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.”
“Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.”

Source : Manly Palmer Hall (1935). “First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection”
“Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.”
“I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.”
“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”
“The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.”

Source : "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.
“This Day, whate'er the Fates decree; Shall still be kept with Joy by me: This Day then, let us not be told, That you are sick, and I grown old”

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