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  • Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

    Fog   Trying   Sound  
    raymond chandler (1966). “the big sleep”
  • During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'

    Sleep   Italian   Europe  
    "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.
  • Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

    Mean   Eye   Thinking  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

    Nice   Men   Vices  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.15, Modern Library
  • You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

    Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.113, Vintage
  • Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

    Sleep   Gun   Brain  
    "Fictional character: Philip Marlowe". "The Big Sleep", www.imdb.com. August 22, 1946.
  • It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

    Nice   Habit   Big Sleep  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.43, Modern Library
  • She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

    Air   Theatre   Four  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.55, Modern Library
  • The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

    Men   Forests   Nasty  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.13, Modern Library
  • You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.

    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

    Two   People   Attention  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.34, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

    "The Big Sleep and Other Novels".
  • I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

    Moving   Knights   Games  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.182, Modern Library
  • I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

    Care   Sober   Clean  
    The Big Sleep (1939) ch. 1
  • The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

    Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.564, Library of America
  • As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

    Men   Style   Going Out  
    "The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words".
  • I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

    Trouble   Chairs   Regan  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.24, Modern Library
  • The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).

    Sleep   Men   Hollywood  
    Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.562, Library of America
  • You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

    Sleep   Men   Orchids  
  • Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

    Sleep   Departed   Debt  
    "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

    Heart   Men   Broken  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.42, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

    Winter   Grieving   Long  
    The Big Sleep ch. 3 (1939)
  • I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

    Winter   Night   Grieving  
    "The Big Sleep". Book by Raymond Chandler, ch. 3, 1939.
  • 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. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

    Morning   Rain   Dark  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library
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