I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives… [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
![“Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives… [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/43e/raymond-chandler-629_bubbles_television-is-really-what-we-ve-been-loo_2225423.jpg)
