"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just."

"井戸の中の独言も三年たてば知れる"

"義は険しい山よりも重く、死は大鳥の羽よりも軽い"

"目は口ほどに物を言う"

"この父にしてこの子あり"

"小打も積もれば大木を倒す"

"虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず"

"艱難にあって初めて真友を知る"

"二兎を追う者は一兎も得ず"

"The feeling hit me like a point-blank shot straight in the face: something was not right about this. My Beretta stirred nervously under my coat... But the train doors had already shut behind me, and I was in for the ride. Next stop: Roscoe Street Station."

"The sun went down with practiced bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding. I didn't like the way the show started. But they had given me the best seat in the house. Front row center."

"Life was good. The sun setting on a sweet summer's day, the smell of freshly mowed lawns, the sounds of children playing-- A house across the river, on the Jersey-side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl. The American Dream come true. But dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking."

"The flesh of fallen angels."

", , , , , , , Hela... Blood given to you all... He was after that old - your soul for power and fortune, just sign on the dotted line with your blood."

"After the end of the world had become a cliché. But who was I to talk, a brooding underdog avenger alone against an empire of evil, out to right a grave injustice. Everything was subjective. There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you."

"Secrets... living under the skin of reality. I've seen it, the corruption of flesh! I'm the wolf! Yeah! I am the wolf! It's close. It's coming. You have come. The witness to the end of time. It's now! I will rise to her side! I don't need the words! I'm beyond the words!"

"I had known there'd have to be a catch in it somewhere, and this one was the Empire State Building of catches. [...] Lupino was pumped up and dying to go 15 rounds with a mutant alligator."

"The nightmare was always the same. Violent shapes moving in darkness, old and ugly. The killer's mad laughter was a riddle filled with wicked innuendo. Somewhere the baby was crying."

"Shoot 'em fulla holes, blow 'em to bits, vaporize 'em, disintegrate 'em, no matter whatchu do, they'll still be back, good as new."

"None of us was a saint."

"No lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the was waiting..."

"The numbing cold of the broken night had followed me in. Upstairs the trio tangoed down the manor halls to the silent rhythm of their murderous hearts, the blood of their victims rust on their lips."

"Punchinello was a pushover. The moment I stepped into the room he folded like a deuce before a royal flush."

"Take me to Cold Steel."

"I was in a graphic novel. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."

"I was in a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."

"Staggering on the mill roof in ice and snow and wild wind, I was a ninja. My kung fu was strong. I wasn't kidding anyone. At best, I was Superman on kryptonite, about to fall through a skylight, down to where it was all going down."

"I was close enough to hear the secrets just beyond the next doorway."

"I had taken on the role of the mythic detective: Bogart as Marlowe, or as going after the Maltese Falcon, to unravel all the mysteries. Following a path of clues to that final revelation, even if it would take me down to the cold, cavernous depths of a grave."

"Project . V for V for Valhalla. All of a sudden it read like a crackpot conspiracy theory."

"I hadn't slept in a million years."

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