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“I know where the past leads,” his mother would reply. “It’s a sad place. Why would I want to know it better? Does knowing make you happy?” “It ain’t about happy. It’s about being whole. You have a right to that. You have a duty to that.”
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“There is absolutely no way for a man of this age to acquire a decent affluence in life without to some degree corrupting himself, without accepting the cold, clear fact that success is always and everywhere a racket.”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“If being in revolt against a corrupt society constitutes being immature, then Philip Marlowe is extremely immature” (Chandler, 1951).”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“The visual manifestation of the utterances is such that the thoughts—not the words, because there are no words—the thoughts appear as crystalline blocks in the darkness.”
― The Singularity
― The Singularity
“When the jay pushes off into air, it leaves on my skin the firm live impression of its departure.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“In 1904, Californian journalist Lincoln Steffens published an exposé entitled The Shame of the Cities. Steffens wrote that “politics is business. In America politics is an arm of business and the aim of business is to make money without care for the law, because politics, controlled by business, can change or buy the law. Politics is interested in profit, not municipal prosperity or civic pride. The spirit of graft and lawlessness is the American spirit.”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
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