"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."

-- Raymond Chandler

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“There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”
“Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.”
“sex is a commodity just like anything else.”

Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books
“I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.”
“America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”
“Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.”
“The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Feb 22, 2013

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