Raymond Chandler Quotes
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Raymond Chandler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.
There are days like that. Everybody you meet is a dope. You begin to look at yourself in the glass and wonder.
That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.
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.
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.
You know who they are?" Tony said softly. "I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right." (I'll be waiting)
Coffee was overtrained and the sandwich was as full of rich flavor as a piece torn off an old shirt.
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a dwelling place for brains.
Velma you says? No Velma heah, brother. No hooch, no gals, no nothing. Jes' the scram, white boy, jes' the scram.
The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.
Ohls showed the motor-cycle officer his badge and we went out on the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
His blue eyes frosted. 'Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?'
'No. But I'm having a lot of fun trying to guess what they are.
'No. But I'm having a lot of fun trying to guess what they are.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)
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.
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.
She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog.
Two very simple rules:
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself.
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself.
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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.
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.