Taxi Driver

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TAXI DRIVER

He is a loner. He collects porno pictures. And fares sexy as animals. He carries thousands of dollars in a money belt. And a three-gun arsenal: .44 Magnum, .38 Smith & Wesson and a little palm piece, a .25 Colt. He spends his nights cruising New York streets in a yellow sardine can on wheels.
Someone evil is going to die. Someone strange is a hero.

Certain nights in New York everything gets crazy. A mad, sad loner drifts out of the shadows into the streets of the city, climbs into his cab, becomes The Night Rider.

Dude, watch out.

He is armed, and he is dangerous . . .

TAXI DRIVER

Now a terrifying movie

COLUMBIA PICTURES
PRESENTS

Robert DeNiro

TAXI DRIVER

A Martin Scorsese Film

Jodie Foster
Albert Brooks
Peter Boyle
as Wizard
Cybill Shepherd
as Betsy

A Phillips/Bill Production

Written by
Paul Schrader
Produced by
Michael & Julia Phillips
Directed by
Martin Scorsese

TAXI DRIVER
A Bantam Book
/
February 1976

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Copyright © 1976 by Bantam Books, Inc.
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Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada

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ISBN: 0-553-02681-X

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FOR BARBARA

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

—T
HOMAS
W
OLFE
“God’s Lonely Man”

“. . . I mean the cure starts here—inside

the sickness.

It’s only natural.

The way the root provides us

antidotes for the leaf’s poisons.

The way a depression is about something

in life wrong

and it invites our will

power to actions.

Where there’s action there’s progress.

Where there’s progress there’s extravagance

and here comes extravagant

Reverend Sister Esmeralda Ciudad

making her nectarine claims to the

ill at ease

riders of the nocturnal subway:

“Nueva York, I will call your enemies by name.”

“Nueva York, I will extend your city limits.”

“Nueva York, I guarantee to restore your lost

nature.”

—from
EMERALD CITY
by H
ERBERT
K
ROHN
(copyright 1974 Herbert Krohn)

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