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Raymond Chandler
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that whe … ▶
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2002). The Long Goodbye: A Novel, p.302, Vintage Crime … ▶
He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2011). The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely, p.55, Modern Library
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it su … ▶
It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2011). The Big … ▶

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