Farewell, My Lovely, 160 & 164

'Listen, Hemingway, don't repeat everything I say,' I said. ...
'A gag,' I said, 'An old, old gag.'
'Who is this Hemingway person at all?'
'A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.'

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go, 146

Having just read the admirable profile of Hemingway in the New Yorker I realize that I am much to clean to be a genius, much too sober to be a champ, and far, far too clumsy with a shotgun to live the good life. - Chandler