You're not very tall are you?
Carmen Sternwood
- Year
- 1939
- Genres
- noir fiction, crime fiction
- Country
- United States
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Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?
Eddie Mars
Do you like orchids?
General Sternwood
You know what he’ll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out, then kick me in the stomach for mumbling.
Marlowe
Are you attempting to tell me my duties sir?
Norris
How do you like your brandy, sir?
Norris
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
Philip Marlowe
My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
Philip Marlowe
Oh, Eddie, you don't have anybody watching me, do you? Tailing me in a gray Plymouth coupe, maybe?
Philip Marlowe
What's wrong with you?
Philip Marlowe
How did you find her?
Vivian
Why did you have to go on?
Vivian
You go too far, Marlowe.
Vivian