He stared at me. Strange you should do all this for her. Pity, I guess. One of the worst traps of all, McGee.
He chuckled and pulled himself to his feet. End of session, McGee. Good night and good luck. At the door he turned and said, I’ll have you checked out, of course. Just for the hell of it. I’m a carefu...
Ask for two, and they give you the third free.
And would not her fastidious litheness take away the heavy taste of the fleshy girls in the Citrus Inn? McGee, the Perfidious.
After I had chased the ghastliness of Fancha out of my mind, I settled down to some planning. A trip out to Leavenworth had a deceptive plausibility.
Answer? I shrugged. Answer shmanser. In the immortal words of Popeye, I yam what I yam. I know my patterns and limitations, needs and hang-ups. So I go on. Right? I endure. I enjoy what I can. There a...
Answer. It sounded too damned close.
You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.
Without my realizing it, it had happened so slowly, I had moved a generation away from the beach people. To them I had become a sun-brown rough-looking fellow of an indeterminate age who did not quite...
Willy Lazeer is an acquaintance. His teeth and his feet hurt. He hates the climate, the Power Squadron, the government and his wife. The vast load of hate has left him numbed rather than bitter. In ap...
Suddenly she came racing into the lounge. She wore one of my big blue towels in sarong fashion, and had a white towel wrapped around her head. Her face looked narrow and intent. Her features looked mo...
He was back at me like a cat, and he swung a hard chunk of wood from one of the smashed chairs. I caught the first one on the shoulder and I cleverly caught the next one right over the left ear. It br...
A sulphur sun pierced the gloom, and the rain stopped and I drove to the hospital.
You? Really now, Mr. McGee. You are spectacularly huge, and a tan that deep is almost vulgar, and you have a kind of leathery fading boyish charm, but this is not and never was a game for dilettantes,...
You said if X has something valuable and Y comes along and takes it away from him, and there is absolutely no way in the world X can ever get it back, then you come along and make a deal with X to get...
Would you rather I found you a place of your own right away? It doesn’t matter. Which would you rather do? The effort of decision brought her out of her torpor. She made fists and her lips tightened....
Why, my boy, if all over this great country little bands of Communist sympathizers and Communist dupes could put a spoke in the wheels of free enterprise by blocking progress and production, Red Russi...
What kind of people did he have aboard, Willy? Smart-ass kids. Tourists, college kids? He stared through me for a moment. I knew one of them. One of the kids? What the hell are we talking about? One o...
The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They’re disaster-prone. Something goes wrong. The sky starts falling on their head. And you can’t reverse the process.
That is the heart of contemporary propaganda, amigo, to strengthen ignorant terrible men who believe themselves to be perfect patriots.