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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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