chandlerisms
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My voice seemed to echo off into the distance and get small and lonely.
5:06 PM Nov 25th
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I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
6:30 AM Nov 22nd
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I offered him a buck but he wouldn't take it. I offered to buy him the poems of T.S. Eliot. He said he already had them.
4:24 PM Nov 19th
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I drank two cups black. Then I tried a cigarette. It was all right. I still belonged to the human race.
1:15 PM Nov 14th
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The robe she was wearing came open, and underneath it she was as naked as September Morn but a darn sight less coy.
1:51 PM Nov 11th
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He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.
3:35 PM Nov 10th
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I forget what I said to him or what thanks I made. They probably sounded like words.
1:20 PM Nov 6th
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We went to a drive-in where they made hamburgers that didn't taste like something the dog wouldn't eat.
2:06 PM Nov 3rd
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I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.
2:26 PM Nov 1st
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I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
6:50 AM Oct 31st
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‘The hell with the champagne,’ she said.
2:53 PM Oct 29th
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He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel.
10:47 AM Oct 25th
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Tijuana is not Mexico. No border town is anything but a border town, just as no waterfront is anything but a waterfront.
6:33 PM Oct 22nd
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His surprise was as thin as the gold on a week-end wedding ring.
7:33 AM Oct 18th
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She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
4:38 PM Oct 15th
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I stopped talking and let the rest of it float in the air.
3:02 PM Oct 12th
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‘Please don't get up,’ she said in a voice like the stuff they use to line summer clouds with.
7:31 AM Oct 10th
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
2:38 PM Oct 8th
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Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century-Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
12:03 PM Oct 7th
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She slid away from him along the seat but her voice slid away a lot further than that.
6:26 AM Oct 6th
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- Name Raymond Chandler
- Location Los Angeles, 1939
- Bio I do all my work on yellow paper, sheets cut in half, typed the long way, triple-spaced.
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