The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
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Read between April 16 - May 2, 2020
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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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as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.
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You can’t have quality with mass production. You don’t want it because it lasts too long. So you substitute styling, which is a commercial swindle intended to produce artificial obsolescence.
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We make the finest packages in the world, Mr. Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk.”