"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon."

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Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

James Crumley

#Spring Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Basically, Iâ€™m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.”
“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”
“Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.”
“Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.”
“It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.”
“Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”
“It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.”

Source : "Felicity Kendal appears to be living The Good Life as she strolls through London" by Karen Rockett, www.mirror.co.uk. July 9, 2016.
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I canâ€™t be loved as I am.”

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