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Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Quotes: There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
         

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.


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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.



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You like it in jail?""It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?



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You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?



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One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.



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Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.



A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.



His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.





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