[ClearCase_guy]

“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, Farewell, My Lovely

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[Savage Beast]

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be—she had it.”

Farewell, My Lovely. Four Complete Philip Marlowe Novels. New York: Avenel Books, 1986, p. 218. (Through the character of Philip Marlowe)