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"A woman is a funny animal."

"By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out."

"They threw me off the hay truck about noon."

"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or , or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this ' of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort."

"When she tired, I loosened up a little, to let her blow. Yes, it was rape, but only technical, brother, only technical. Above the waist, maybe she was worried about the sacrilegio , but from the waist down she wanted me, bad. There couldn’t be any doubt about that."

"The hand that holds the money cracks the whip."

"We’re just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have. And we just weren’t the kind that could have it. We had all that love, and we just cracked up under it. It’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords. God is up there laughing at us."

"I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church."

"We're the friendliest enemies that ever were."

"Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?""Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born."

"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake."

"There’s a shark. Following the ship."I tried not to look, but couldn’t help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs."Walter, we’ll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.""I guess we better have a moon.""I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight."

"If you have to do it, you can do it."

"A receptionist is a lazy dame that can’t do anything on earth, and wants to sit out front where everybody can watch her do it."

"Let's get stinko."

"Tomorrow night, if I come back, there’ll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death.""It's a date."

"Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny."

"Restaurant, hey. That's what I've got. Whole goddam country lives selling hot dogs to each other."

"We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual."

"Just you and me and the road."

"He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake."

"I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren't drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great-grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night."

"Under those blue pajamas was a shape to set a man nuts."

"That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate."

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman."

"... Walter, the time has come.""What do you mean, Phyllis?""For me to meet my bridegroom. The only one I ever loved. One night I'll drop off the stern of the ship. Then, little by little I'll feel his icy fingers creeping into my heart."

"Sit here, now, and look. The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty. So it is with Mexico. I hope you never forget it."

"I understood it now, understood a lot of things I had never understood before. And mostly I understood what a woman could mean to a man. Before, she had been a pair of eyes, and a shape, something to get excited about. Now she seemed something to lean on, and draw something from, that nothing else could give me. I thought of books I had read, about worship of the Earth, and how she was always called Mother, and none of it made much sense, but those big round breasts did, when I put my head on them, and they began to tremble, and I began to tremble."

"She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another."

"He was enthusiastic about everything, but when she came in with the pie he grew positively lyrical."

"Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate."

"A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you."

"Buoyed by the success of the gay and lesbian liberation movement, freed from enforced isolation by changes in the medical and psychiatric establishment, and brought together by the Internet, the transgender community has emerged in the last five years as a new voice in social activism. This voice suggests that, although gender is an identity we are born with, an identity that no amount of social influence can sway, it is too great and varied a force to shoehorn into those ubiquitous boxes marked F and M. While human desires--for love, passion, work, respect, friends, family--remain constant, the way those desires are felt and expressed cannot always be categorized at the moment of birth. Anatomy, as feminists have long argued, is not destiny."

"Money’s what makes the world go round, having a business niche is who I am, and it’s crucial."

"We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business."

"“Erin is the kind of all-star player that knows how to connect-the-dots and translate events into relevant information for viewers.”"

"I think maybe that’s an understandable reaction by some people, given the lack of understanding and the sort of closed doors around Wall Street. I see my job as demystifying Wall Street."

"If you go out and kill something, you get a little bite of the meat. And that’s the way traders have been compensated throughout time."

"But the banks, who are at the center of this, they’re actually the ones who’ve paid back their bailout money."

"If I didn’t do it then, I wouldn’t be able to do it. I was trying to hit the sweet spot of ‘Ok."

"I do think it’s important to acknowledge that a lot of things come to us."

"If I was allowed to invest in stocks, I would be a billionaire."

"I would say no, but banks and availability of credit are the most basic and important things for an economy."

"We need to keep vaccinating. This is not about choice. This is about our moral responsibility to our children and to other people's children."

"Hopefully, what more people will realize in this whole national conversation is that the only reason polio is quote-unquote gone is because of mass vaccinations."

"You can’t force people to become something that they aren’t and you can’t be frustrated when people aren’t exactly what you need for a specific thing or thought they would be."

"There is no job that's beneath anybody."

"There is an element of TV that is visual. You can’t deny, but you’re not going to be able to move to the next level without the passion, the contacts, the journalistic drive."

"Take a job and learn as much as you can, and be open to that and really soak it in but when you realize is isn't meant for you don't forget to jump but you have to balance that with jumping for the right reasons."

"You have to adjust what it is they’re doing or just adjust and you can find a way to have people really thrive and succeed and participate on a team."