Hard Boiled Humor Quotes

“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“But this Hemingway stuff is what really has me down."
"A gag," I said. "An old, old gag."
"Who is this Hemingway person at all?"
"A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good."
"That must take a hell of a long time," the big man said.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“O que afinal eu continuava procurando nesta cidade poluída, maligna e amaldiçoada? O real.”
― Caio Fernando Abreu, Onde Andará Dulce Veiga?: Um Romance B