It's a Bitter Little World

It's a Bitter Little World: The Smartest, Toughest, Nastiest Quotes from Film Noir is a fun book filled with hard boiled philosophy.

Pitfall [1948] TOMMY FORBES: Is there anything you want me to do today, Dad?
JOHN FORBES: Yeah. Until my rich uncle dies, quit growing.

Sleep, My Love [1948]
DAPHNE: We’ve got a lot — but we haven’t got everything. I want what she’s got. All of it. I want her house, her name, her man. And I want them now. Tonight.

The Street With No Name [1948]
ALEC STILES: Here. Buy yourself a closetful of clothes. I like my boys to look sharp.

Out of the Past [1947]
JEFF BAILEY/JEFF MARKHAM: I sell gasoline, I make a small profit. With that,I buy groceries. The grocer makes a profit. We call it earning a living. You may have heard of it somewhere.

Ride the Pink Horse [1947]
FRANK HUGO: Small fry. All your life you waste time worrying about small fry things. About a job. About a two buck raise. About getting a pension.

FRANK HUGO: Guys like you work all their lives breaking their backs, trying toearn meat and potatoes. You end up borrowing enough money to buy a hole in the ground to get buried in. Then when you get a chance to make some realscratch, what do you do, mice like you and Shorty? You ask for peanuts.

Force of Evil [1948] WALLY: What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.

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