"Maybe I can quit drinking one of these days. They all say that, don't they?" "It takes about three years." "Three years?" He looked shocked. "Usuall… - Raymond Chandler

The big man leaned down from his hips and bent his knees a little and breathed in my face.
‘What for did you call me Hemingway, pally?’
‘There are ladies present.

She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word. I helped her off with her raincoat. She smelled very nice. She had a pair of legs - so far as I could determine - that were not painful to look at. She wore night sheer stockings. I stared at them rather intently, especially when she crossed her legs and held out a cigarette to be lighted

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.