The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

by Raymond Chandler

“He didn’t know the right people. That’s all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.”

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.

She’s a grifter, shamus. I’m a grifter. We’re all grifters. So we sell each other out for a nickel.