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  1. Raymond Chandler _ Farewell, My Lovely

    I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.
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  2. Raymond Chandler _ Playback

    I opened the other envelope. It contained a photograph of a girl. The pose suggested a natural ease, or a lot of experience in being photographed. It showed darkish hair which might possibly have been red, a wide clear forehead, serious eyes, high cheekbones, nervous nostrils and a mouth which was not giving anything away. It was a fine-drawn, almost a taut face, and not a happy one
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  3. Raymond Chandler _ Playback

    She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word. I helped her off with her raincoat. She smelled very nice. She had a pair of legs - so far as I could determine - that were not painful to look at. She wore night sheer stockings. I stared at them rather intently, especially when she crossed her legs and held out a cigarette to be lighted
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  4. Raymond Chandler _ The Simple Art of Murder

    They went along a balcony that looked down over the dining room and the dance floor. The lisp of hot jazz came up to them from the lithe, swaying bodies of a high-yaller band. With the lisp of jazz came the smell of food and cigarette smoke and perspiration. The balcony was high and the scene down below had a patterned look, like an overhead camera shot. {Nevada Gas}
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  5. Raymond Chandler _ Playback

    I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors
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  6. Raymond Chandler _ Red Wind: A Collection of

    There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
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  7. Carroll John Daly _ Race Williams' Double Date and

    His belly was flabby, and it got softer every time I hit it. I hit it often."
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the

    I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the

    Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
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