"To say goodbye is to die a little."

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Source : Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Raymond Chandler

#Goodbye Quotes #Saying Goodbye Quotes #Littles Quotes

“My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.”
“As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.”
“I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.”
“Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.”
“From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather, But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together. Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare. Though so much of Heaven appears in my make, The foulest impressions I easily take. My parent and I produce one another, The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.”
“But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren't - they're witty. I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.”
“How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.”
“It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling.”

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