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Raymond Chandler Quotes
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
A really good detective never gets married. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girls clothes off. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
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 Quotes
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
I certainly admire people who do things. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didnt need a gun, youd better take one along that worked. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he wont let himself get snotty about it. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
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 Quotes
It is not a fragrant world. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
The law isnt justice. Its a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
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