I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.