Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and … - Raymond Chandler

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Accept that some days you’re the bug, and some days you’re going to be the windshield.

Raymond Chandler

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.

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