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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. - [Inconspicuous] I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. - [Drunkenness] If you liked a book, don't meet the author. - [Authors] The more you reason the less you create. - [Reason] It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central Avenue, the blocks that are not yet all Negro. - Farewell, My Lovely [Books (First Lines)] I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling. - Goldfish, a short story [Books (First Lines)] The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said--partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down. - Playback [Books (First Lines)] It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. - The Big Sleep [Books (First Lines)] The house was on Dresden Avenue in the Oak Knoll section of Pasadena, a big solid cook-looking house with burgundy brick walls, a terra-cotta tile roof, and a white stone trim. - The High Window [Books (First Lines)] The Treloar Building was, and is, on Olive Street, near Sixth, on the west side. - The Lady in the Lake [Books (First Lines)] The pebbled glass door is lettered in flaked black paint: "Phillip Marlowe . . . Investigations." It is a reasonably shabby door at the end of a reasonably shabby corridor in the sort of building that was new about the year the all-tile bathroom became the basis of civilization. The door is locked, but next to it is another door with the same legend which is not locked. Come on in--there's nobody in here but me and a big bluebottle fly. But not if you're from Manhattan, Kansas. - The Little Sister (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. - The Long Goodbye [Books (First Lines)] Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit. - Trouble Is My Business (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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