He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true I prefer to be.Raymond Chandler
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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