Ken Schles

Our Own Appetite

              ''We will allow the rats to eat the fish'' Proctor said ''believe me when I tell you, that as far as I'm concerned the rats are welcome to that fish, because it stinks. Besides, rats have to eat. We have work for those rats to do and we want them nice and healthy and ready to run fast when we light them off, so we will transcend our own appetite for the fish and let them eat it''.

George V. Higgins
The Rat on Fire
1970

Everything But Me

My guitar brought us here to Bonmat Texas

     And i bought you everything your eyes could see

But the mansion couldn't hold you

Could nobody's arms to warm you

I guess i gave you everything but me

Better Off When I Was Hungry

(Kirby)

Merle Haggard

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Viggo Mortensen

A History of Violence

Two Faces of January

 Eastern Promises

A Perfect Murder

Indian Runner

In the End You Wonder

        Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death will win. You want to find out everything in the time you have : yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen. 

Derek Raymond

He Died with His Eyes Open

1984

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Jack Vettriano

Better Not to Know

Took Over the Place

 

       'Thanks' I said. 'You're an oasis Charles, an Eight Avenue oasis'
       Someone in a booth had dropped a nickel in a juke slot. It was the only good record in the box, the Bechet version of  'Summertime'. The haunting tone of Sydney's clarinet took over the place. I looked around to see if it was Shirley. She was always playing it. She was sitting in a booth by herself, listening to the music.

Budd Schulberg
The Harder they Fall
1947

Will Steacy

People in Hell

                                      There's people in hell who want ice water.

The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
1949

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Frank Sinatra
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955

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John Hawkes

 

Too Late

 Low Down

Winters Bone

Something May Happen

            There is no new experience in life. Something may happen to you that you think has never happened before, that you think is brand new, but you are mistaken. You have only to see or smell or hear or feel a certain something and you will discover that this experience that you thought was new has happened before.

Horace McCoy
They Shoot Horses Don't they ?
1935

Past Saturday Night

I want a Sunday kind of love

A love to last past Saturday night

And I'd like to know

It's more than love at first sight

And I want a Sunday kind of love

Oh yeah, yeah

Sunday Kind of Love

(Prima/Nye/Rhodes/Bell)

Etta James



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FC Gundlach
1951

In the Backwoods

Matewan

Paris Trout

 Hard Times

Lawless

Boxcar Bertha

Deliverance

Thieves Like Us

The Grissom Gang

Bloody Mama

Derek Colligan

For Them to Be Lived

              There are moments which are made up of so much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

John Le Carre

Tinker,Tailor,Soldier, Spy                    

1974

William Gedney 2

A Man You Don't Recognize

          Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in it's work that you never realise it has stolen your youth until you look in the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognise.

James Lee Burke

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Jesus Leon

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Make Terms ........

                Everything's bad Michael, everything. You can't escape it or fight it. You've got to get along with it. Deal with it, make terms.

Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles
1948