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- Get him a trench coat and a hat with a brim so sharp it’ll cut the night.
- Well, fuck me sideways.
- But I am no one’s him.
- Pluto, our nearest buddy, the mad wife in the attic of the solar system
- 3. If you’re going to sleep with someone on set, make sure it’s the director.
- I hate talking about how I was born. Obviously I don’t remember it. It’s a story that’s been told to me. We all start out with this lie. Our parents tell us the story of our beginning and they have total control of it. Over the years they change it—they know they’ve changed it, and we know they’ve changed it, but we just let them.
- I tasted funny to her at first, and she thought maybe it wouldn't last. A person has to taste right if you're gonna stick around.
- It’s just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they’re usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That’s all they’re about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her.
- At the evening receptions, the décolletages of all the earnest and well-meaning ladies prickle with gooseflesh and the throats of the paler girls sheen a trembling, vampiric blue.
- A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
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