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Raymond Chandler
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The Lady in the Lake
Breeze looked at me very steadily. Then he sighed. Then he picked the glass up and tasted it and sighed again shook his head sideways with a half smile; the way a man does when you give him a drink and he needs it very badly and it is just right and the first swallow is like a peek into a cleaner, sunnier, brighter world.
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Jack Vance
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This Is Me, Jack Vance!: Or,
On occasion I read Raymond Chandler although I have certain reservations about this author. Chandler, while obviously a master of his craft, makes overuse of simile, to my annoyance.
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Raymond Chandler
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Farewell, My Lovely
The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something that they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not anymore. They're topped by too many smart minds.
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Collected Stories
I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe {talking about Olympia} in a short story called Goldfish.
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Farewell, My Lovely
Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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The Long Goodbye
There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.
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Raymond Chandler
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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.
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