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  1. Charles Willeford _ Pick-Up

    There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
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  2. Charles Willeford _ The Way We Die Now

    the diver's chest. Hoke pushed the bell, and the glass
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  3. Charles Willeford _ The Woman Chaser

    You've seen him, I know. He's the guy who stands there, or sits in a scene, and never says anything. If you need five tough guys to sit in a car waiting to blast somebody coming out of a building, he's one of the five guys in the car. If some criminals are waiting to be tried by a judge in a courtroom scene, he's waiting to be tried and he always looks guilty. He stands by elevators, he eats lunch in restaurants. In westerns, he is the guy at the end of the bar drinking rye. Once in a while he carries the rope at a lynching.
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  4. Charles Willeford _ The Woman Chaser

    Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.
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  5. Charles Willeford _ Whip Hand

    he was an oddity of some magnitude.
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  6. Charles Willeford _ Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley

    By the end of a short walk, the septic tip of a cane probably collects enough germs to destroy a small city.
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  7. Charles Willeford _ Made in Miami

    The Filipino houseboy was conscious now
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  8. Charles Willeford _ The Woman Chaser

    I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.
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  9. Charles Willeford _ The Machine in Ward Eleven

    a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.
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  10. Charles Willeford _ Cockfighter

    It is a funny thing. A man can make a promise to his God, break it five minutes later and never think about it. With an idle shrug of his shoulders, a man can break solemn promises to his mother, wife or sweetheart, and, except for a slight momentary twinge of conscience, he still won't be bothered very much. But if a man ever breaks a promise to himself he disintegrates. His entire personality and character crumble into tiny pieces, and he is never the same man again.I remember very well a sergeant I knew in the army. Before a group of five men he swore off smoking forever. An hour later he sheepishly lit a cigarette and broke his vow to the five of us and to himself. He was never quite the same man again, not to me, and not to himself.
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  11. Charles Willeford _ Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley

    Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.
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  12. Charles Willeford _ Pick-Up

    No whiskey, no religion, nothing.
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