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The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.

— Raymond Chandler

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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

The Big Sleep (1939)

A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.

The Big Sleep (1939)

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

The Big Sleep (1939)

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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