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The Big Sleep (Chandler)

 

Her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939) Chapter 10.
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His pale eyebrows [were] bristling and stiff and round like the little vegetable brushes the Fuller Brush man gives away.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939) Chapter 18.
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Cab Driver [Joy Barlow]: Call me if you need me again.
Marlowe [Humphrey Bogart]: Day or Night?
Cab Driver: Night's better. I work days.
-- Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner and others, movie of The Big Sleep (1946) from the novel by Raymond Chandler.
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A smell of kelp came in off the water and lay on the fog. The tires sang on the moist concrete of the boulevard. The world was a wet emptiness.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 23.
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