The Big Sleep
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"The Big Sleep" Quotes

By Raymond Chandler

mystery | 221 pages | Published in 2020

ISBN_13: 9780369401229
ISBN_10: 0369401220

Quotes

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

Raymond Chandler

The minutes took their time and crawled.

Raymond Chandler

She had long legs and she was good with them.

Raymond Chandler

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right.

Raymond Chandler

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

Raymond Chandler

I'm not all that drunk.

Raymond Chandler

I'm too old for change. Don't want it. Couldn't take it if I did.

Raymond Chandler

I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

Raymond Chandler

The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

Raymond Chandler

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, or you can live forever as a coward.

Raymond Chandler