Best Raymond Chandler Quotes
- The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. Down
- Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely… Add
- The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities. Character
- However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. Always Rationalize
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… Afraid
- She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts. All
- Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.… All
- The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense… Acts
- It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their… Admits
- The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off… Agent
- That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to… Asks
- Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. Antagonistic
- I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a… Absolutes
- I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. Along
- It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… Alexandrian
- The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… All
- The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some… Adventure
- I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the… Ability
- I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make… Any
- There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science,… Art
- The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool… American
- In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. Art
- Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… Attentive
- The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. Best
- An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Age
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