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I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Raymond Chandler
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Approximate author period: c. 1923 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1888 to 1959; Wikidata Q180377, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180377 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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