–American?
–Yeah, I came over here during the war and couldn’t find my way home.
–Did you find what you wanted?
–Yes, thanks.
–I could make your business my business.
–You wouldn’t like it, the pay’s too small.
–What’s wrong with you?
–Nothing you can’t fix.
–You go too far, Marlowe.
–Those are hard words to throw at a man, especially when he’s walking out of your bedroom.
–You got a touch of class, but I don’t know how you’d go over a stretch of ground.
–A lot depends on who’s in the saddle.
–You’ve got a touch of class but I don’t know how far you can go.
–A lot depends on who’s in the saddle.
-Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?
-No, just having fun trying to guess what they are.
-Do you like orchids?
-Not particularly.
-Ugh, nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men and
their perfune has the rotten sweetness of corruption.
-Is that any of your business?
-I could make it my business.
-I could make your business mine.
-Oh, you wouldn’t like it. The pay’s too small.
-Oh, Eddie. You don’t have anybody watching me, do you? Tailing me
in a gray Plymouth coupe maybe?
-No, why should I?
-Why did you have to go on?
-Too many people told me to stop.
1) How do you like your brandy sir? 2) In a glass.
1) Why did you have to go on? 2) Too many people told me to stop.
1) You don’t look like a man who’d be interested in first editions. 2) I collect blondes in bottles, too.
A) You’re not very tall, are you?
B) Well, I try to be.
Carmen) What’s your name? Marlowe)Reilly, Doghouse Reilly.
Come into my boudoir.
Do you always think you can handle people like trained seals?
Don’t you know any better than to wake a man at two o’clock in the afternoon?
Gen. Sternwood) It’s too hot in here for any men who has blood in his vein. You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affair a man who has to indulge his vices by proxy. You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life, crippled, paralyzed in both legs, barely I eat and my sleep is so near waking it’s hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a new born spider.
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like ’em myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.
I don’t mind if you don’t like my menners. I don’t like ’em myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.
I know, you just work here.
I liked that. I’d like more.
I was part of the nastiness now.
Listen, when a guy’s doing a job, I don’t kibitz.
My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.
Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.
So many guns lately, so few brains.
So you’re a private detective. I didn’t know they existed, except in
books or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corriders.
Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860?
You just sleep the big sleep.
You’re not very tall, are you?
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