I think the way to stop it is to shrug it off. Or to take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure, that's the system. At any rate, it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.
David Goodis
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Leo Carlos R
I returned to the car thinking of Betty alive, happy, in love with a guy who would never betray her. As i crossed the park i looked up a Mount Lee. There was nothing left of the panel but "Hollywood" ; the orchestra played "There's nothing like show business".
James Ellroy
Black Dahlia
1987
We had all that love, and we just cracked up under it. It's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords. God is up there laughing at us.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M Cain
1934
