There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. — Raymond Chandler · Skopia

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye · 1953

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Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 12.

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