Fragments of Noir

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Bobby Ziek
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        She was the type that definitely never came from round these parts. She seemed to be here for only a short while, ran rings round us all. We blinked and she was gone.

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        Like most others i was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hellraiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking but i felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time i felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Noah Sahady

           I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens it's anaesthetic power. It's good for small fears ; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist ; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

Cornell Woolrich

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Vincent Peters