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“Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.” quote by Raymond Chandler — Download Open image

“Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.”

Raymond Chandler

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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

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