Tribute to Film Noir

"Oh, Eddie, you don't have anybody watching me, do you? Tailing me in a gray Plymouth coupe, maybe?" - Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“That's the way it is. Kissing is all right. It's nice. I'd like to do more of it. But first, I want to find out what Eddie Mars has on you.“ - Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“It got dark and the rain-clouded lights of the stores were soaked up by the black street.” - Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

" I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. I don't mind your ritzing me drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me." - Philip Marlowe: The Big Sleep © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.” - Philip Marlowe: The Long Goodbye © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.” ― Philip Marlowe: The Long Goodbye © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.” ― Philip Marlowe: The Long Goodbye © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” ― Philip Marlow: Farewell, My Lovely © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

"The light went out. The room was as black as Carry Nation's bonnet." - Farewell, My Lovely © 2020 Arlequin Photographie

"I put a cigarette in my mouth and stared at her. She looked a little pale and strained, but she looked like a girl who could function under a strain." - The Big Sleep © 2020 Arlequin Photographie