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Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

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The Long Goodbye

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Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 4.

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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The Long Goodbye

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Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 12.

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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

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The Simple Art of Murder

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944.

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A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.

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On Los Angeles.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26.

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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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The Big Sleep

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Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. Alfred A. Knopf, 1939, ch. 3.

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 13.

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When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 Apr. 1950, introduction.