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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

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Money costs too much.

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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.

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As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

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Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

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How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 27th, 1965

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