A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
¶ Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
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Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) American novelist
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
¶ The Long Goodbye (1953)
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
¶ The Simple Art of Murder, Introduction (1950)
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