Filling the Room

The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers,

Ross MacDonald

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Shelfheroesmagazine

Gloria Grahame

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Darkness Take My Hand ........... 20

Way of the Gun

This Gun for Hire

Nightcrawler

Strangers on a Train

Secret in their Eyes

Killers Kiss

The Conformist

If I Don't Get away Soon

This damn burg's getting me. If i don't get away soon i'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

Dashiell Hammett

Red Harvest

1929

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Live and Die in LA

The stars are God's eyes. Don't you believe that ?

To Live and Die in LA

1985

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Live and Die in LA

Jay Maisel

Don't You Think That I Count the Days

     Don't you think that i count the days ? There is only one day left ; always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Jeremy Mann

Odds against Tomorrow

Odds against Tomorrow
Robert Wise
1959

Found you Wanting

            They're the kind of dames who can wear floor-length gowns and look completely naked. The kind with hair piled up on their head like compliant serpents, or falling down in smooth lustrous waves. Dames with hard faces and mocking smiles and eyes that sized you up and found you wanting  ..... but you'd do for now.

James Lileks
The Bleat
Feb 2003

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foedo

Only things that Matter

                                        Obsessions are the only things that matter.

Patricia Highsmith

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Carol
2015

It Still is News

Them that's got shall have

Them that's not shall lose

So the bible said and it still is news

God bless the Child

(Holiday/ Herzog)

Billie Holiday



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Billie Holiday & Lester Young

1957

It Belonged to Him

No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either. Because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.

Leonard Gardner

Fat City

1969

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The Set Up
1949

                                   http://www.thestacksreader.com/down-and-out-in-fat-city/

Kenneth van Sickle

The Walls Drew Back

        At One o'clock in the morning Carl, the night porter, turned down the last of three table lamps in the main lobby of the Windemere hotel. The blue carpet darkened a shade or two and the walls drew back into remoteness. The chairs filled with shadowy loungers. In the corners were memories like cobwebs.

Raymond Chandler
I'll be Waiting
1939

Darkness Take my Hand ..........19

Night and the City

Carol

Double Indemnity

Un Flic

Lost Weekend

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Odd Man Out

Lady from Shanghai

All Washed Out

             I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

Raymond Chandler

Lady in the Lake

1943

 

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Russell Lee