"Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world."

-- Charles Frazier

#Attitude Quotes #Black Quotes #Style Quotes

“I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.”

Source : "Khloe Kardashian posts cryptic message seemingly aimed at estranged husband Lamar Odom" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2014.
“Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.”
“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
“Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.”
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
“Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.”
“I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.”
“At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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