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Raymond Chandler Quote: “I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “If you believe in an idea, you don’t own you, it owns you.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective’s struggle to solve a problem.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “You mean something happened to him?” Her voice faded off into sort of a sad whisper, like a mortician asking for a down payment.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “I didn’t have anything really exiting to drink, like nitroglycerin or distilled tiger breath.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “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 Quote: “Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. I went back to my desk, dropped the bottle of whiskey back into the drawer, shut the drawer and sat down again.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Well, George Anson Phillips is a kind of pathetic case... He was the sort of cop who would be likely to hang a pinch on a chicken thief, if he saw the guy steal the chicken and the guy fell down running away and hit his head on a post or something and knocked himself out. Otherwise it might get a little tough and George would have to go back to the office for instructions.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “If you don’t leave, I’ll get somebody who will.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “California, the department store state.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “She sighed. “All men are the same.” “So are all women – after the first nine.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “I looked at her again. She lay still now, her face pale against the pillow, her eyes large and dark and empty as rain barrels in a drought. One of her small five-fingered thumbless hands picked at the cover restlessly. There was a vague glimmer of doubt starting to get born in her somewhere. She didn’t know about it yet. It’s so hard for women – even nice women – to realise that their bodies are not irresistible.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Do I have to be polite?” I asked. “Or can I just be natural?”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Shake your business up and pour it. I don’t have all day.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “No border town is anything but a border town, just as no waterfront is anything but a waterfront.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of brandy beneath it.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Go ahead and faint,” I said. “I’ll catch you on the first bounce.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Whoever had done it had meant business. Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten – when Larry Cobb was sober.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “They write them long because they can’t write them short.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “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 Quote: “Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “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 Quote: “Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”
Raymond Chandler Quote: “She was quite a doll. She wore a white belted raincoat, no hat, a well-cherished head of platinum hair, booties to match the raincoat, a folding plastic umbrella, a pair of blue-gray eyes that looked at me as if I had said a dirty word.”
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