Shutter Island
What Doesn't Kill You
In the Cut
All the King's Men
Zodiac
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
I Was Part
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, i was part of the nastiness now.
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
1939
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LAPD
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
He Who Seeks
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.
Walter Benjamin
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Robert Doisneau
Monday, 26 February 2018
All Things Had Opposites
But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative.
Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
1950
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Fortune Magazine
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Every Sinner ............ 29
Kiss Me Deadly
Farewell My Lovely
Killers Kiss
Get Carter
The Hustler
Le Cercle Rouge
Lost Weekend
Dial M for Murder
Key Largo
Zodiac
The Killers
Loaned His Title
In the 1950s when i was hanging around Sullivans gym and the Grammercy gym there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport ; one lightweight champion had loaned his title to others at least twice ; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
Pete Hamill
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Norman Rockwell
Saturday, 24 February 2018
His Face Was Small
"I'll take ham and eggs" the man call Al said. He wore a derby hat and a black overcoat buttoned across the chest. His face was small and white and he had tight lips. He wore a silk muffler and gloves.
"Give me bacon and eggs" said the other man. He was about the same size as Al. Their faces were different, but they were dressed like twins. Both wore overcoats too tight for them. They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
The Killers
Ernest Hemingway
1927
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Ethan Rohloff
Friday, 23 February 2018
Kill the Part
Don't kill yourself. Kill the part of you that you don't like.
Ernest Hemingway
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To Have and Have Not
1944
