The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.
我需要一杯酒，我需要很多人寿保险，我需要一个假期，我需要一个乡下的家。我有的是一件外套，一顶帽子和一把枪。
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
死人比破碎的心更重。
I have a sense of exile in thought, as if I were an alien.
我在思想中有一种流放感，仿佛我是个外星人。
The moment you start to think about style, you're lost.
当你开始思考风格的那一刻，你就迷失了。
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of books people would like to read is to publish books and see what happens.
找出人们喜欢读什么样的书的唯一方法就是出版书籍，看看会发生什么。
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer.
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.
The streets were dark with something more than night.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
没有无聊的主题，只有无聊的作家。
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
The streets were dark with something more than night.
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