Richard Stark Quotes

#1. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

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#2. For you, that tree is dead.

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#3. Well, it just figures, Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

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#4. When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

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#5. You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of it. You want to take me to court?"
"You're in court right now," Parker said.

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#6. Please ... they'll kill me. I'll kill you ... worry about me.

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#7. When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

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#8. I'm going to drink his blood, I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs to raise a leg at. I'm going to peel the skin off him and rip out his veins and hang him with them.

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#9. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

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#10. If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

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#11. Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

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#12. I'm only the messenger!"
"Now you're the message", Parker told him and shot him.

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#13. Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

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#14. Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.

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