“Anyway… she knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a horse who knows a goat who knows another horse”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
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Raymond Chandler
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The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
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