Quotes by Raymond Chandler

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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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 hair  

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When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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 grammar  

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The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
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 alcohol  drunkenness  

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
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