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I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
— Raymond Chandler
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
— Raymond Chandler
He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
— Raymond Chandler
Thick cunning played on her face, had no fun there and went somewhere else.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.
— Raymond Chandler
Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.
— Raymond Chandler
I bet she snaps a mean garter.
— Raymond Chandler
There are days like that. Everybody you meet is a dope. You begin to look at yourself in the glass and wonder.
— Raymond Chandler
in a voice with half the steps missing.
— Raymond Chandler
That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.
— Raymond Chandler
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
— Raymond Chandler
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.
— Raymond Chandler
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
— Raymond Chandler
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
— Raymond Chandler
The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
— Raymond Chandler
Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
— Raymond Chandler
To hell with the rich, they make me sick.
— Raymond Chandler
It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
— Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
— Raymond Chandler
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?
— Raymond Chandler
Authenticity is boring, credibility is important
— Raymond Chandler
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
— Connie Willis
Her eyes ate me.
— Raymond Chandler
There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.
— Raymond Chandler
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive.If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. — Raymond Chandler
Anybody home, son?" "You ought to know." "How would I know?" "Go - yourself." "That's how people get false teeth." He showed me his in a tight grin.
— Raymond Chandler
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
— Raymond Chandler
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
— Raymond Chandler
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee.
— Raymond Chandler
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
— Raymond Chandler
If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it.""Caterpillar blood," I said. — Raymond Chandler
I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors
— Raymond Chandler
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
— Raymond Chandler
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
— Raymond Chandler
Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)
— Raymond Chandler
Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.
— Raymond Chandler
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
— William Lashner
They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.
— Raymond Chandler
You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.
— Raymond Chandler
It is not a fragrant world.
— Raymond Chandler
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
— Raymond Chandler
I was in the deep water. It was dark and unclear and the taste of the salt was in my mouth.
— Raymond Chandler
A occasional whiff of his personality drifted back to me.
— Raymond Chandler
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
— Raymond Chandler
She was thinking. i could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother for her.
— Raymond Chandler
However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody's eye.
— Raymond Chandler
California, the department store state.
— Raymond Chandler
They were never young and will never be old. They have no beauty, no charm, no style. They don't have to please anybody. They are safe. They
— Raymond Chandler
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
— Raymond Chandler
A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
— Raymond Chandler
You can live a long time in Hollywood and never see the part they use in pictures ...
— Raymond Chandler
To say goodbye is to die a little.
— Raymond Chandler
My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you.
— Raymond Chandler
If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
— Raymond Chandler
The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.
— Raymond Chandler
The same broken promise of a life of ease. I
— Raymond Chandler
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
— Raymond Chandler
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
— Raymond Chandler
It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.
— Raymond Chandler
I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.
— Raymond Chandler
I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog.
— Raymond Chandler
Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
— Raymond Chandler
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
— Raymond Chandler
Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.
— Raymond Chandler
You have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.
— Raymond Chandler
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now.
— Raymond Chandler
Lois Magic was not listed in the phone book.
— Raymond Chandler
She'd make for a jazzy week-end, but she'd be wearing for a steady diet.
— Raymond Chandler
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
— Raymond Chandler
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
— Raymond Chandler
Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
— Raymond Chandler
A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.
— Raymond Chandler
Very methodical guy, Marlowe. Nothing must interfere with his coffee technique. Not even a gun in the hand of a desperate character.
— Raymond Chandler
We were very much in love - the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.
— Raymond Chandler
He had a sort of dry musty smell, like a fairly clean Chinaman.
— Raymond Chandler
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
— Raymond Chandler
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
— Raymond Chandler
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
— Raymond Chandler
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
— William Gibson
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
— Raymond Chandler
I hung up and fed myself a slug of Old Forester to brace my nerves for the interview.
— Raymond Chandler
She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.
— Raymond Chandler
You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.
— Raymond Chandler
He breathed like an old Ford with a leaky head gasket.
— Raymond Chandler
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
— Raymond Chandler
I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.
— Raymond Chandler
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
— Raymond Chandler
She was a cute as a washtub.
— Raymond Chandler
