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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
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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