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  • about me: Digital book militant. @mikecane on Twitter, The eBook Test blog.
  • books that moved me: Derek Raymond, Ken Bruen, Charles Bukowski.
  • genres I like: Crime fiction
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I knew things were going wrong when I got home, put the shopping down in the kitchen and the table gave a terrible cough.

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The Hidden Files by Derek Raymond
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There are so many faces in streets and bars and buses and stores that remind one of Original Sin, so few that carry permanently the sign of Original Innocence.

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Loser Takes All by Graham Greene
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'You're not meant to think like that,' he said. 'You're a copper.' 'If I didn't think like that, I wouldn't be a copper,' I said. 'If I didn't think like that, there's be no point in being a copper or anything else.'

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I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
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Why is it that the simplest questions are the questions that have no answer?

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I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
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'Word gets around, doesn't it?' said Stevenson. 'WeII, that's exactly what words are for,' I said.

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I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
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I parked In the Factory lot and said: 'I've been blagging on.' Stevenson said: 'My eardrums aren't bruised.'

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I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly, and when you need to sell them, valueless.

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Karmesin: The World's Greatest Criminal -- or Most Outrageous Liar by Gerald Kersh
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If I were running a training-school for criminals, I should article all my pupils to solicitors. Nobody has less respect for the law than a solicitor.

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Karmesin: The World's Greatest Criminal -- or Most Outrageous Liar by Gerald Kersh
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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'It's not our fault,' Kleber saìd, 'Not altogether, anyway.' 'I don't agree,' she said. 'It is. We let it happen the way it does.'

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Nightmare in the Street by Derek Raymond
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