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" An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. "
Woman
Terrible
Thing
" 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. "
Good
Women
Trouble
" 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. "
Being
Poker
Machines
" 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. "
Trying
Turn
Me
" Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. "
Bottom
Heart
Human
" How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on? "
Breaking
Man
Live
" I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it. "
Got
Anything
Ahead
" I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. "
Knew
Out
Even
" I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. "
Rope
Problems
Need
" Money costs too much. "
Money
Much
Too
" My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. "
Rose
Like
Childhood
" Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. "
Rise
Wrong
Nothing
" The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. "
About
Kinds
Novels
" There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year. "
Year
Possible
Live
" The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. "
Detective
Surprise
Run
" 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. "
Personal
Work
Learn
" When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble. "
Show
Trouble
Up
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