When I Was Younger

    As we grow older i always think 'why didn't i do more when i was younger, why didn't i risk more ?'

Chuck Palahunik

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The Promised Land

                      Well there'a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
                      I packed my bags and i'm heading straight into the storm
                      Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
                      That ain't got the faith to stand it's ground
                      Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
                      Blow away the dreams that break your heart
                      Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted    

The Promised Land
(Springsteen)
Bruce Springsteen

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I Don't Understand Them

              I'm supposed to have a Ph. D on the subject of women. But the truth is i've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women ; i admire them. But like all men i don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

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Sinatra

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Hell is Empty.........part Two

I Had Lost It

      I had a funny feeling as i saw the house disappear, as though i had written a poem and it was very good and i had lost it and would never remember it again.

Raymond Chandler
The High Window
1942

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The Rap Sheet

To Have and Have Not

Sparseness and Beauty

        It's about fighting but it's also about watching and listening, and it's about patience and honing and craft, and sparseness, and beauty, and crushing awful defeat.

Esquire

February 2012

Review of The Professional

by W.C Heinz 1958

Washed Me Clean

   As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, i opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Albert Camus

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David Adam Edelstein

Sean Phillips

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from Hellblazer ;Family man
www.surebeatsworking.blogspot.co.uk

Like a Dope

       Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying ?

Chuck Palahunik

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Kimura Ihei
Tokyo 1953
reblogged from Amanwithapast

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder
1951

New Noir

Pound for Pound

              I just hope he went someplace where he could find a little peace. .............Somewhere between nowhere and goodbye ................

F.X Toole

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Straight Ahead

Straight Ahead

(Lincoln/Baker/Waldron)

Abbey Lincoln

Wanda Waldera

You Look Alright

                              They say this city will make you dirty
                              But you look alright
                              You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight  
                              City will make you mean
                              But that's just make-up on your face
                              Love will wash you clean in the night's disgrace

Young Blood
(R. Lee Jones)
Rickie Lee Jones

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London 1936
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Cannot Create

                                 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus

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Hard Eight (Sydney)
1996

John Guttman

Ghosts of Saturday Night

          A cab combs the snake tryin' to rake in that last night's fare
          And a solitary sailor, who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers
          Paws his inside peacoat pocket for a welcome twenty-five cents
          And the last bent butt from a package of Kents
          As he dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes
          And marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair
          Her rhinestone-studded moniker says 'Irene'
          As she wipes the whisps of dishwater from her eyes

Ghosts of Saturday Night
(Waits)
Tom Waits

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Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973