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He had a hunch the hot dogs they sold here at Tarpon Stadium were if anything more dubious in their composition than your average supermarket frankfurter, but that seemed to be beside the point. A ballpark hot dog was just part of the…
“Designated hitter,” Keller said as Floyd Turnbull took a called second strike.” Whoever thought that one up?” “Some marketing genius,” his new friend said.” Some dipstick who came up with research to prove that fans wanted to see more…
For most gamblers, though, it was a hobby, a harmless pastime. And just because Keller couldn’t figure out what they got out of it, that didn’t mean there was nothing there. === …hobby, he suspected, was irrational by definition. As long…
“He’d need a tailwind and a whole lot of luck,” the man said,” before he could rise to the level of no chance at all.” === “The trick,” the fellow said,” is doing the wrong thing at the right time.” === “When you start at forty-to-one, you…
My eyes are sore, and I figure you’re a sight for them. === “Well, they call them rescue workers,” he said,” but they’re not rescuing anybody, because there’s nobody to rescue. Everybody’s dead.” === “It’s the same as with the blood,” he…
“Someone who lacks a sense of right and wrong,” he said.” He understands the difference but doesn’t see how it applies to him personally. He lacks empathy, doesn’t have any feeling for other people.” === “It doesn’t sound like you,” she…
“Someone who lacks a sense of right and wrong,” he said.” He understands the difference but doesn’t see how it applies to him personally. He lacks empathy, doesn’t have any feeling for other people.” === “It doesn’t sound like you,” she…
Frankfort, Kentucky, which happened to be the state capital, although most people would guess it was Louisville. === By designating Martinique a part of France, the same as Normandy or Provence, they obscured the fact that the island was…
There’d be some spectacular head-on collisions before they got the bugs out of the system, but before long every car would have it, and the accident rate would plummet and the state troopers wouldn’t have anybody to give tickets to, and…
The living room of the Lattimore house had a cathedral ceiling and a walk-in fireplace. Keller thought the fireplace looked nice, but he didn’t quite get it. A walk-in closet was one thing, you could walk into it and pick what you wanted…
If the car were to hydroplane on the slick pavement, cruise control would think the wheels weren’t turning fast enough, and would speed up the engine to compensate. And then, when the tires got their grip again, wham! === “Take soldiers,”…
“They were folk heroes,” he said.” Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson.” “And Bonnie and Clyde. Have those two got a museum?” “Probably. They were heroes the same as the Daltons and Youngers and Jameses, but they weren’t…
Like the Godfather, talking to that undertaker. ‘Someday I’ll need a favor.’ ” === This golfer goes out and he has the worst round of his life. He loses balls in the rough, he can’t get out of sand traps, he hits ball after ball into the…
He was about as unarmed as you could be, unarmed enough to pass through airport security, with not even a nail clipper at his command. === “The roles we play in each other’s lives,” Dot said,” and we’re not even aware of it. Who says…
“…I’m not a mugger.” “You’ve got your code of honor.” “I don’t know about codes, and I’m pretty sure honor hasn’t got anything to do with it. But it’s just not what I do.” === “You whispered because voiceprints don’t work with…
“I guess you don’t look the way I expected you to look.” “Well, I’m older than I was a few hours ago.” === “…it worked out all right, all things considered, but that doesn’t make it a good idea.” === “All dogs go to heaven, Keller, even…
“That’s the thing with you these days, Keller. You never seem to have any choice, and you wind up doing the damnedest things.” === He centered his attention on his Good Humor. The sweetness helped, no question about it. Took the sourness…
“Dot, they sent the dog to a shelter, just the way I said they would.” “Well, there’s a big surprise. I thought for sure they’d run him for the Senate on the Republican ticket.” “But it wasn’t the SPCA.” “Or the YMCA either, I’ll bet.”…
As far as he was concerned, getting upset over the outcome of a sports event was like getting depressed when a movie had a sad ending. I mean, get a grip, man. It’s only a movie, it’s only a ball game. === …a plump and owlish young man who…
“And we sold it short, and covered our shorts very cheaply, and made a killing. It’s nice to make a killing without having to drive anywhere. === “Quotidian. It means ‘everyday, ordinary.’ “ “Then why not just say that? Never mind. What…
“Well, you know what they say. Nothing’s inevitable in this life besides Thurn and Taxis.” === “Mecklenburg-Schwerin,” he said,” and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. There were all these different states and provinces during the nineteenth century,…
…a cousin of mine wins prizes more often than not at the Westminster Kennel Club show. Got a wall full of blue ribbons. He’s got a guy who tells him what dogs to buy, and a woman who grooms the animals and gets them in peak condition for…
“How’d you get him unconscious?” “Rabbit punch.” === “…I’m trying to decide how I feel about covers.” “It’s a Pandora’s box,” Bingham said.” No two covers are identical, so you never know when to stop buying them. Or what’s a good price.…
“A shark has to keep swimming forward all the time,” he explained,” or it dies. At least that’s what I heard somewhere.” “It does sound like the sort of thing a person would hear somewhere.” “Well, whether it’s true or not for sharks, it…