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“He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.”
― Raymond Chandler, Pearls are a Nuisance

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

“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, Farewell, My Lovely

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”
― Raymond Chandler

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”
― William Gibson

“He would make a lovely corpse.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been largely accomplished in middle-class America and they didn't need the firemen. The interactive electronics took care of it without the violence,”
― Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.”
― Colin Thubron