Words of wisdom from Raymond Chandler's famous sleuth can be found in Philip Marlowe's Guide To Life, a great little HB piled on the till at a lovely bookshop near you (if you live in South East London anyway)
On Coffee:
I went out to the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life-blood of tired men.
On Grammar:
"He coulda, went somewhere without telling me," he mused.
"Your grammar," I said, "is almost as loose as your toupee."
On TS Eliot
"'I grow old...I grow old...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.' What does that mean, Mr Marlowe?"
"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."
He smiled. "That is from 'THe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.' Here's another one. 'In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you sir?"
"Yeah - it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."
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