# Quote — Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

> “Who is this Hemingway person at all?”
>
> “A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.”
>
> “That must take a hell of a long time,” the big man said.

- Author: [Raymond Chandler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/raymond-chandler.md)
- Book: [Farewell, My Lovely](https://www.leafyquotes.com/raymond-chandler/farewell-my-lovely.md)
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> He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of.

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> Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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> We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.

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