A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top… — raymond chandler Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm a big sleep guy. I think my schedule sorta starts with sleep and making sure I get enough of it. I'm… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Our reward for surviving the hard knocks of a corporal life is arguably paltry. The inevitability of the big sleep is our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
