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Philip Marlowe Quotes

“The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he came up with it he looked as guilty as if he'd kicked his grandmother.”

Humor Simile Philip Marlowe Red Wind

Author:Raymond Chandler

“I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.”

Home Past Memories Books Radio Pictures Old Letters Chessmen Philip Marlowe So Noir It Hurts Carmen Sternwood The Hobart Arms

Book:the big sleep

Source: the big sleep

“I bet it was also the triumphant Aha! and not the truth itself that had fueled all those famous literary detectives I knew not much about except their names - Philip Marlowe, Sherlock Holmes, Joe and Frank Hardy. I felt like yelling something celebratory on my way home, something like, Yeah! or Fuck, yeah! just like Marlowe would have yelled, just like the Hardys would have yelled, and maybe Holmes, too, although maybe that's why he kept Watson around; to tell Holmes to simmer down and not get too far ahead of himself.”

Yeah Triumphant Sherlock Holmes Aha Moment John Watson Philip Marlowe Aha Frank Hardy Fuck Yeah Joe Hardy Literary Detectives Simmer Down The Hardy Boys

Book:An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

Source: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

“I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.”

Philip Marlowe Scarecrows So Noir It Hurts Hardcore Simile

Book:the big sleep

Source: the big sleep

“Marlowe's the name. The guy you've been trying to follow around for a couple of days." "I ain't following anybody, doc." "This jalopy is. Maybe you can't control it. Have it your own way. I'm now going to eat breakfast in the coffee shop across the street: orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast, honey, three or four cups of coffee, and a toothpick. I am then going up to my office, which is on the seventh floor of the building right opposite you. If you have anything that's worrying you beyond endurance, drop up and chew it over. I'll only be oiling my machine gun.”

Philip Marlowe Machine Gun So Noir It Hurts Jalopy Noir Breakfast Poor Harry Jones

Book:the big sleep

Source: the big sleep

“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.”

Kinsey Millhone Philip Marlowe

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