“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”

— Raymond Chandler, book Farewell, My Lovely

Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 34

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