Prolog

»Baby, nothing is easy. Life comes in a thousand shades of grey, and everyone except madmen think what they do is reasonable and maybe even the madmen do too. … Real people wander around in the foggy foggy dew, and never get to understand anything completely, themselves included. … Remember, we’re standing at the plate blindfolded. They give us an unlimited number of strikes, so you swing until your arms get too tired, and hope you don’t get hit in the head.«

She leaned closer and said, »What kind of lousy defeatist attitude is that?«

Travis McGee und Nora Gardino in A Deadly Shade of Gold von John D. MacDonald

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»It’s interesting how rich people fuck you and you don’t even know most of the time they’re doing it.«

Elvin Crowe in Maximum Bob von Elmore Leonard

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»Let’s go.«

»Why not.«

Pike Bishop und Lyle Gorch in The Wild Bunch von Sam Peckinpah