A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.

Raymond Chandler

On Los Angeles.

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Topic

Los Angeles Cities

Speaker

Philip Marlowe

Author

Raymond Chandler

Source

The Little Sister

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26.

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