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title: "14 Littles Quotes By Raymond Chandler"
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> [To say goodbye is to die a little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/to-say-goodbye-is-to-die-a-little/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/woe-woe-woe-in-a-little-while-we-shall-all-be-dead-therefore-let-us/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-are-no-vital-and-significant-forms-of-art-there-is-only-art-and/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-french-have-a-phrase-for-it-the-bastards-have-a-phrase-for/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/as-it-is-she-will-probably-turn-out-to-be-one-of-these-acid-faced/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-is-not-funny-that-a-man-should-be-killed-but-it-is-sometimes-funny/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/americans-will-eat-anything-if-it-is-toasted-and-held-together-with-a/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-s-fairly-obvious-that-american-education-is-a-cultural-flop/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/james-cain-faugh-everything-he-touches-smells-like-a-billygoat-he-is-2/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks… Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-ain-t-no-clean-way-to-make-a-hundred-million-bucks-somewhere/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-was-a-desert-wind-blowing-that-night-it-was-one-of-those-hot/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/its-big-men-are-mostly-little-men-with-fancy-offices-and-a-lot-of/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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> [It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-about-eleven-o-clock-in-the-morning-mid-october-with-the-sun/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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## Other authors on Littles

## More by Raymond Chandler

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/television-s-perfect-you-turn-a-few-knobs-a-few-of-those-mechanical/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/there-is-no-trap-so-deadly-as-the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/common-sense-is-the-guy-who-tells-you-that-you-ought-to-have-had-your/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [ “Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of \[The Glass Key\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said-to-have-lacked-heart-yet-the/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/she-jerked-away-from-me-like-a-startled-fawn-might-if-i-had-a/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-good-story-cannot-be-devised-it-has-to-be-distilled/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/dashiell-hammett-took-murder-out-of-thevenetian-vase-and-dropped-it/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/he-james-cain-is-every-kind-of-writer-i-detest-a-proust-in-greasy/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/it-was-a-blonde-a-blonde-to-make-a-bishop-kick-a-hole-in-a-stained/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/i-had-been-stalking-the-bluebottle-fly-for-five-minutes-waiting-for/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/a-three-piece-mexican-band-was-making-the-kind-of-music-a-mexican/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/mostly-i-just-kill-time-he-said-and-it-dies-hard/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-book-was-not-new-dates-were-stamped-on-the-front-endpaper-in-and/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/without-magic-there-is-no-art-without-art-there-is-no-idealism/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

> [“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-chandler/the-homicide-skipper-that-year-was-a-captain-gregorius-a-type-of/)

[Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-chandler/)

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