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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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