Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely (1940)

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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Who is this Hemingway person at all?
A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.
That must take a hell of a long time, the big man said.

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

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We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.

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He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of.

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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

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"They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder."

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