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Book: The Little Sister
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
He looked up rather sadly. "So would I. So would we all. But show business has always been like that-any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard-well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
They were never young and will never be old. They have no beauty, no charm, no style. They don't have to please anybody. They are safe. They
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
he breathed like an old Ford with a leaky head gasket."
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
She was wearing a brown tailor-made and from a strap over her shoulder hung one of those awkward-looking square bags that make you think of a Sister of Mercy taking first aid to the wounded.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
Платих и се отбих в един бар, за да изсипя чашка коняк върху нюйоркската пържола. Защо ли и викаха нюйоркска? Доколкото си спомням стоманените плоскости се произвеждат в Детройт. Излязох да вдъхна малко нощен въздух, за който никой още не бе намерил начин как да го продава. Но не се съмнявах, че доста народ си блъска главата над този проблем. И рано или късно ще сполучи.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
You mean something happened to him?" Her voice faded off into sort of a sad whisper, like a mortician asking for a down payment.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
You're not human tonight, Marlowe.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
There are days like that. Everybody you meet is a dope. You begin to look at yourself in the glass and wonder.
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Raymond Chandler _ The Little Sister
It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.
book-quote police society-thinking cynicism