A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person]… — 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
I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — 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
![“We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence…” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11e/raymond-chandler-629_average_we-have-the-whitest-kitchens-and-the-mos_3191092.jpg)
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