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The Little Sister (1949)
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To say she had a face that would have stopped a clock would have been to insult her.It would have stopped a runaway horse.
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The corridor which led to it had a smell of old carpet and furniture oil and the drab anonymity of a thousand shabby lives.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
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A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.
Of Los Angeles
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I hung up.
It was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk.
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I stepped out into the night air that nobody had yet found out how to option. But a lot of people were probably trying. They'd get around to it.
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'He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'
'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion.'
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
Raymond Chandler
Born:
July 23, 1888
Died:
March 26, 1959
(aged 70)
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