{"quotes":[{"text":"It's only crazy if we fail.","author":"Henry Mosquera","tags":["action","adventure","crime","noir","science-fiction","scifi","soft-scifi","space-adventure","space-opera"],"id":12584,"author_id":"Henry+Mosquera"},{"text":"Banks watched the sun creep over the forest of oak trees and a crack of light broke through the night and grew longer and wider and ate the black like a fungus until the darkness was gone and there was light and it was day.","author":"Matthew McBride","tags":["literature","noir"],"id":17805,"author_id":"Matthew+McBride"},{"text":"Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.","author":"Danyl McLauchlan","tags":["comic","noir","satire"],"id":22351,"author_id":"Danyl+McLauchlan"},{"text":"A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.","author":"Derek Raymond","tags":["crime","english-crime","hard-boiled","noir","patois","slang","true-crime"],"id":27720,"author_id":"Derek+Raymond"},{"text":"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.","author":"Richard Stark","tags":["crime","criminal","noir"],"id":28056,"author_id":"Richard+Stark"},{"text":"The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["dark","darkness-and-light","light","noir"],"id":30358,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.","author":"James M. Cain","tags":["hardboiled","money","murder","noir","women"],"id":32783,"author_id":"James+M.+Cain"},{"text":"This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of that category. And yet Woolrich's lack of control over emotions is a crucial element in his work, not only because it intensifies the fragility and momentariness of love but also because it tears away the comfortable belief, evident in some of the greatest works of the human imagination such as Oedipus Rex, that nobility in the face of nothingness is possible. And if Woolrich's work is not art as commonly understood, there is an art beyond art, whose form is not the novel or story but the scream; and of this art Woolrich is beyond doubt a master. ('Introduction').","author":"Francis M. Nevins Jr.","tags":["cornell-woolrich","crime","noir","writing"],"id":33672,"author_id":"Francis+M.+Nevins+Jr."},{"text":"The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.","author":"Henry Mosquera","tags":["action","adult","adventure","anime","crime","humor","noir","science-fiction","scifi","space-opera"],"id":43928,"author_id":"Henry+Mosquera"},{"text":"Gary Robinson died hungry.He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and obnoxious, he pushed ahead of seven customers on line at a fast-food chicken outlet. The counter girl told him that his behavior was impolite. She calmed him down with sweet talk, and he agreed to step to the end of the line. His turn came just before closing time, just after the fried chicken ran out.He punched the counter girl so hard her ears rang, and a security guard shot him—three times.","author":"Edna Buchanan","tags":["crime","miami","noir"],"id":45229,"author_id":"Edna+Buchanan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}