They figured he was a lazy, time-wasting slacker. They were right.

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• Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail.
• It takes guys as simple as the Dude and Walter to make a story this complicated... and they'd really rather be bowling.
• (Israel, translated from Hebrew): Lebowski: Not a man, a way of life

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