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You're not a detective, Marlowe, you're a slot machine. You'll do anything for six bits.

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Moose Malloy: You a private Dick? Philip Marlowe: No. I'm your fairy godmother.

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Philip Marlowe: What was she like... this Velma? Moose Malloy: Cute... cute as lace pants.

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Lt. Nulty: [during an interrogation] All right, Marlowe, let's start again, huh? From the beginning. Philip Marlowe: I've told you twice. Now, why don't I make it easy on all of us and tell you what you want to hear? This fairy hired me to exchange a necklace for cash for a friend of his. We drove out to the woods. I shot him. I buried the fifteen grand. I drove my car back to his place, walked fifteen miles back to the woods, knocked myself on the head and then called the police.

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Frances Amthor: I think you're a very stupid person. You look stupid, you're in a stupid business, and you're on a stupid case. Philip Marlowe: I get it. I'm stupid.