“The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“She had weedy hair of that vague colour which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The living room was still dark, because of the heavy growth of the shrubbery the owner had allowed to mask the windows.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“From "Raymond Chandler Speaking" On his wife, after her death- "For 30 years, 10 months and four days, she was the light… — 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
“Lucille has a dull life, Mr. Marlowe. She's stuck here with me and a PBX. And an itty-bitty diamond ring - so… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
