I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
In Noir we live in the presence of characters who for better or worse, and with a certain panache, are playing for keeps, and who sometimes shine most brightly when they lose - as though in a loss there's a secret that does no earthly good but feeds the soul.
Michael Ventura
Austin chronicle 2011
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The Captive City
1952
Fat City
Leonard Gardner
1969
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