Author:  Jim Thompson
Book:    The Grifters
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As for working with a partner, he didn't like that either. It cut the score right down the middle. It put an apple on your head, and handed the other guy a shotgun. Because grifters, it seemed, suffered an irresistible urge to beat their colleagues. There was little glory in whipping a fool-hell, fools were made to be whipped. But to take a professional, even if it cost you in the long run, ah, that was something to polish your pride."

( Jim Thompson )
[ The Grifters ]
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