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William Irish est le pseudonyme de Cornell Woolrich, écrivain américain né le 4 décembre 1903 à New York, où il meurt le 25 septembre 1968. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. décembre 1903 – 25. septembre 1968  •  Autres noms Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, George Hopley, കോർണെൽ വൂൾറിച്ച്, קורנל וולריץ'
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William Irish: Citations en anglais

“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”

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Cornell Woolrich

Source: Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

“It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”

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Cornell Woolrich

Source: Angels of Darkness

“Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it?”

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Angels of Darkness, Mind Over Murder

“t's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”

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Cornell Woolrich

“What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.”

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Cornell Woolrich

“You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect.”

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“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.”

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Cornell Woolrich

“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.”

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