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“I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.

"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

“She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

“You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels

“I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake