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“Tall, aren't you?
I didn't mean to be.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
― Raymond Chandler