It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody ha… - Raymond Chandler

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It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

Raymond Chandler

The Little Sister · August 12, 1988 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Raymond Thornton Chandler (23 July 1888 – 26 March 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter who specialized in the crime fiction genre.

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