Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid — 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 faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo… — 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
