Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
Raymond ChandlerThere are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn't be a cop.
Raymond ChandlerHe's on a bus to Las Vegas. He has a friend there who will give him a job."
She brightened up very suddenly. "Oh- to Las Vegas? How sentimental of him. That's where we were married."
"I guess he forgot," I said, "or he would have gone somewhere else.
Oh sure, I'm her husband. That's what the record says. I'm the three white steps and the bug green front door and the brass knocker you rap one long and two short and the maid lets you into the hundred-dollar whorehouse.
Raymond ChandlerMaybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I could just look at him across the width of a cafeteria and want to kick his teeth in.
Raymond ChandlerThe homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind that solves crimes with the bright light, the soft sap, the kick to the kidneys, the knee to the groin, the fist to the solar plexus, the night stick to the base of the spine. Six months later he was indicted for perjury before a grand jury, booted without trial, and later stamped to death by a big stallion on his ranch in Wyoming.
Right now I was his raw meat.
That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.
Raymond ChandlerI knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.
Raymond ChandlerMots clés mystery-novels
That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.
Raymond ChandlerDon't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.
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