patois quotes

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-downpatoiswhichissomething likethewaya Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive,God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

-Chandler, Raymond
  Letter to Edward Weeks at  Atlantic Monthly,18  Jan.

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