
"The Long Goodbye" Quotes
A private detective becomes entangled in a web of deception and corruption while investigating the suicide of a friend.
memoir | 380 pages | Published in 1988
Quotes
There are no clean getaways.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
Nobody cares but me, and they ain't worried.
There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
There's no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
In a world full of cupids, I'd be a lawn jockey.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.