Quotes about Noir

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I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because — Sara Sheridan
He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced — David Goodis, Dark Passage
In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it st — Francis M. Nevins Jr., Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics, "Marked by shame, p — Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait unti — Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer an — Matthew McBride, A Swollen Red Sun
The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of y — Will Christopher Baer, Hell's Half Acre
The rain fell like dead bullets. — Scott Nicholson
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. — Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it. — Bruce Crown, How Dim the Promised Land
I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost. — Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. Ther — Warren Ellis, Gun Machine
I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in th — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not tou — Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to — Ed Lynskey, Lake Charles
Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both. — V. Alexander
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne — Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn
...heaven wouldn’t be like this earth, this tormented earth ruled by evil forces that tossed humanity to and fro like a — Joe LaFlam, My Fear Lady
From Chapter 1:The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from th — Ed Lynskey, Pelham Fell Here
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet. — Raymond Chandler