#guns

Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. ↗

— John Masefield

#gangsters #guns #modernity #dating

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. ↗

— Frederick The Great

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Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on. ↗

— Stephen King

#death

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm's length on a level with his eyes--the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big and heavy--and made the sign of the cross with it over the dead. He said, "Rest in peace, motherfuckers," turned, and walked out of the beer lady's house to wait at the side of the road. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#death #guns #murder #profanity #death

The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. ↗

— Stephen King

#dreams

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#education #gunpowder #guns #mind #printing-press

If God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt did. ↗

— COLT

#equal #equality #god #gun #guns

After losing my job, I felt the only options available to me were razors, cyanide, or a shot to the face, until Renaldo, being the good friend that he is, reminded me how to tie a noose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #guns #hanging #job #jobless

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#fear #guns #music #new-orleans #power

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. ↗

— Stephen King

#chambers #dark-tower #deschain #gunslinger #hunger