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When I left Merle was wearing ...

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

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Tall, aren't you?' she said. ...

Tall, aren't you?' she said. 'I didn't mean to be.' Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

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She lowered her lashes until t...

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

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I sat down on the edge of a de...

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

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Neither of the two people in t...

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

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You're broke, eh?' I been sha...

You're broke, eh?' I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

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It was a smooth silvery voice ...

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

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In everything that can be call...

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

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Would you convey my compliment...

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

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One would think a writer would...

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

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It is just possible that the t...

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

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It is not funny that a man sho...

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

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You can't tell a doper well un...

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

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I belonged in Idle Valley like...

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

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An artist cannot deny art, nor...

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

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The English may not always be ...

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

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An age which is incapable of p...

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

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James Cain - faugh! Everything...

James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.

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When I split an infinitive, Go...

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

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A real gimlet is half gin and ...

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

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