"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too."
"You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore."
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Source: Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”
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