#boiled

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#hard-boiled #santa-anas #short-story

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#hard-boiled #wonderland #world #manners

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#boiled #diet #fat #fish #live

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#boiled #could #disappointing #down #form

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#computer #computer program #created #down #i

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.' ↗

— Liam Neeson

#always #back #boiled #dad #hard

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#hardboiled #humour #noir #beauty

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake ↗

— James M. Cain

#love #noir #love

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child. ↗

— James Crumley

#love

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#hard-boiled #mystery #mystery-series #death