Thinking Quotes by Raymond Chandler

10 Thinking quotes by Raymond Chandler

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Chandler’s few lines on thinking carry the same smoky atmosphere as his detective tales. The collection is a quick look at how he framed the mind’s work in a world of shadows.

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One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

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I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat…

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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take…

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms…

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Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see,…

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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it…

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Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit…

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Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.…

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I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is…

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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…

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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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 a front…

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“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]…

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

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

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“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…

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

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“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…

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“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…

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Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

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“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate…

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Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but…

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“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind…

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