"I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees."

-- Lawrence Block

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“Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.”
“"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.”
“I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.”
“Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.”
“Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.”
“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”
“I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.”
“Donâ€™t let them see you weak.”

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