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6442ef4 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. humor philip-marlowe manners raymond-chandler put-downs Raymond Chandler
aee8537 I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories. memories past carmen-sternwood chessmen old-letters pictures the-hobart-arms so-noir-it-hurts philip-marlowe home radio Raymond Chandler
68d039c "Marlowe's the name. The guy you've been trying to follow around for a couple of days." "I ain't following anybody, doc." "This jalopy is. Maybe you can't control it. Have it your own way. I'm now going to eat breakfast in the coffee shop across the street: orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast, honey, three or four cups of coffee, and a toothpick. I am then going up to my office, which is on the seventh floor of the building right opposite you. If you have anything that's worrying you beyond endurance, drop up and chew it over. I'll only be oiling my machine gun." noir-breakfast poor-harry-jones so-noir-it-hurts machine-gun philip-marlowe Raymond Chandler
09ae7e5 I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. scarecrows so-noir-it-hurts philip-marlowe Raymond Chandler
916d293 "If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it." "Caterpillar blood," I said." regan-sternwood so-noir-it-hurts philip-marlowe Raymond Chandler
7b9f39e I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I. philip-marlowe Sue Grafton