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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
There was a woman. She was rich. She thought she wanted to marry me. It wouldn't have worked. I'll probably never see her again. But I remember." "Let's go," she said quietly. "And let's leave the memory in charge. I only wish I had one worth remembering." On the way down to the Cadillac I didn't touch her either. She drove beautifully. When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
La primera sensación fue que, si alguien me reñía, yo me echaría a llorar. La segunda, que la habitación era demasiado pequeña para mi cabeza. Sentía la frente muy lejos de la nuca, y los lados enormemente distantes el uno del otro, a pesar de lo cual un sordo latido pasaba de una sien a otra. Las distancias no significan nada hoy en día.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
If God were omnipresent and omniscient in any literal sense, he wouldn't have bothered to make the universe at all. There is no success where there is no possibility of failure, no art without the resistance of the medium.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
Don't kid yourself. You're a dirty low-down detective. Kiss me.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
On a dance floor half a dozen couples were throwing themselves around with the reckless abandon of a night watchman with arthritis.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
Wherever I went, whatever I did, this was what I would come back to. A blank wall in a meaningless room in a meaningless house.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word.
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How can such a hard man be so gentle? she asked wonderingly.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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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive." I
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
Uh-huh. Could be,' I said. It was a spot for a paragraph of lucid prose. Henry Clarendon IV would have obliged. I didn't have a damn thing more to say.
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Raymond Chandler _ Playback
I opened the other envelope. It contained a photograph of a girl. The pose suggested a natural ease, or a lot of experience in being photographed. It showed darkish hair which might possibly have been red, a wide clear forehead, serious eyes, high cheekbones, nervous nostrils and a mouth which was not giving anything away. It was a fine-drawn, almost a taut face, and not a happy one
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