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Quotes from The Long Goodbye — Raymond Chandler

1888–1959 England

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American girls are terrific. American wives take too damn much territory.

The Long Goodbye (1953)

I never saw any of them again — except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them.

The Long Goodbye (1954)

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

The Long Goodbye (1954)

She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed.

The Long Goodbye (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raymond Chandler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.