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  1. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres
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  2. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    - No estoy dispuesto a hablar, Eddie. ¿Por qué iba a hacerlo? Dejó la pistola sobre el escritorio y la golpeó con la mano abierta. - Esto -dijo-. Y yo podría hacer que le resultara provechoso. - Ya, eso suena mejor. No meta la pistola en este asunto. Yo siempre estoy dispuesto a escuchar el sonido del dinero."
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  3. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    I need not add that a man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets.
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  4. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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  5. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    You lied to him and you drank your cyanide like a little gentleman. You died like a poisoned rat, Harry, but you're no rat to me.
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  6. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whiskey, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and of Eddie Mars and his pals. I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.
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  7. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance. I don't expect to go over ground the police have covered and pick up a broken pen point and build a case from it. If you think there is anybody in the detective business making a living doing that sort of thing, you don't know much about cops.
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  8. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    Once outside the law you're all the way outside. You think he's just a gambler. I think he's a pornographer, a blackmailer, a hot car broker, a killer by remote control, and a suborner of crooked cops. He's whatever looks good to him, whatever has the cabbage pinned to it. Don't try to sell me on any high-souled racketeers. They don't come in that pattern.
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  9. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    He leaned his back against the workbench and looked me over without haste, without interest, as if he was looking at a slab of cold meat. Perhaps he thought of people that way.
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  10. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    It was raining again the next morning, a slanting gray rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads. I got up feeling sluggish and tired and stood looking out of the windows, with a dark, harsh taste of Sternwoods still in my mouth. I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. I went out to the kitchenette and drank two cups of black coffee. You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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  11. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it.
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  12. Raymond Chandler _ The Big Sleep

    Mr. Cobb was my escort," she said. "Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober.
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