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I bet she snaps a mean garter.
— 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
Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
— 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
She was a cute as a washtub.
— Raymond Chandler
The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.
— Raymond Chandler
If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
— 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
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
— Raymond Chandler
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
— 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
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
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
— 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
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
— Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
She'd make for a jazzy week-end, but she'd be wearing for a steady diet.
— Raymond Chandler
Lois Magic was not listed in the phone book.
— Raymond Chandler
A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now.
— Raymond Chandler
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
— Raymond Chandler
You have to hold your teeth clamped around Hollywood to keep from chewing on stray blondes.
— Raymond Chandler
Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.
— Raymond Chandler
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
— Raymond Chandler
The same broken promise of a life of ease. I
— 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
My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you.
— 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
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
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
