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The Long Goodbye
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"The Long Goodbye" Quotes

A private detective becomes entangled in a web of deception and corruption while investigating the suicide of a friend.

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Quotes

There are no clean getaways.

Raymond Chandler

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Raymond Chandler

Nobody cares but me, and they ain't worried.

Raymond Chandler

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.

Raymond Chandler

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Raymond Chandler

There's no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Raymond Chandler

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.

Raymond Chandler

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Raymond Chandler

In a world full of cupids, I'd be a lawn jockey.

Raymond Chandler

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler