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The streets were dark with so...

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

At least half the mystery nov...

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

It is pretty obvious that the...

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 296 quotes

She jerked away from me like ...

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

Chess is as elaborate a waste...

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

Everything a writer learns ab...

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 296 quotes

The creative artist seems to ...

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 296 quotes

From 30 feet away she looked ...

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 296 quotes

Most critical writing is driv...

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 296 quotes

Alcohol is like love. The fir...

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 296 quotes

Woe, woe, woe... in a little ...

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

Good critical writing is meas...

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 296 quotes

If my books had been any wors...

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 296 quotes

I think a man ought to get dr...

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

The law isn't justice. It's a...

The law isn't justice. It's 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 296 quotes

Television is just one more f...

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

The moment a man sets his tho...

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

The challenge of screenwritin...

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 296 quotes

An age which is incapable of ...

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

The girl gave him a look whic...

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

Raymond Chandler 296 quotes

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