You Couldn't Learn

                            ................... the instinctive brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born or never knew at all.

I'm Dangerous Tonight
Cornell Woolrich

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Lauren Bacall

Jack Delano

Doubts

             The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

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Isak Dinesen 
reblogged from Amyvdh

New York Stories

O'Hara with Hemingway at Stork Club

Small Town

               A small town is a place where there's no where to go where you shouldn't.

Burt Bacharach

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Ralph Crane
reblogged from Russiabyriver

Richard Gere

Internal Affairs

Final Analysis

Unfaithful

American Gigolo

Brooklyn's Finest

Arbitrage

Primal Fear

Meeting Across the River

                              And tonight's gonna be everything that i said
                              And when i walk through that door
                              I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed
                              She'll see this time i wasn't just talking
                              Then i'm gonna go out walking

Meeting Across the River
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen
1973

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Paul Wolff
France 1920

Noir in a Flask- Patrick Hamilton

.......... the physical and psychic landscape inhabited by his barmaids, waiters, prostitutes and two-bit actresses : the dingy pubs and mammoth teahouses, the dosshouses, the theaters and catchpenny movie houses, the hewed in, zig-zagging streets enveloped in a damp gloomy darkness.

One More Round

Eric Banks

Bookforum 2008

Patrick Hamilton

top photo cinecity/ Anna Deamer

Like Someone in Love

Devil May Only Know

                           What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice ? What man wants is simply independent choice. Whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil may only know what choice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground
1864

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Armin Lendeck

Mosaic Noir # 19

Rififi

Unfaithful

The Burglar

Plein Soleil

Red Badge of Courage

American Gigolo

Hustler Days

                                   A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Mary Karr

The Liars Club

The Hustler

A Very Good Year

          When i was twenty-one
          It was a very good year
          It was a very good year for city girls
          Who lived up the stair
          With all that perfumed hair
          And it came undone
          When i was twenty-one


It Was a Very Good Year
(Drake)
Frank Sinatra
1965

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I Don't Believe

              I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self attention.

Travis Bickle

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Martin Ansin