Jun
23
Great Lines (So Far) in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
“You broke, eh?”
“I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
I said: “Anybody home, son?”
“How would I know?”
“Go ——— yourself [sic].”
“That’s how people get false teeth.”
“Whoever had done it [killed Geiger] had meant business. Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
