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NUMBER:21909
QUOTATION:She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.
ATTRIBUTION:William Faulkner (1897–1962), U.S. novelist, Leigh Brackett (1915–1978), U.S. screenwriter, Jules (Julius Grinnell) Furthmann (1888–1960), U.S. screenwriter, and Howard Hawks. Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), The Big Sleep (1946).

To the butler about Carmen Sternwood.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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