Best Raymond Chandler Quotations
- Dames lie about anything - just for practice. Dames
- The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but… Audience
- The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment. Authority
- The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can… Artistic
- Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober. Anyone
- You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. Always Tell
- The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. Dead
- The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average… All
- The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. Art
- Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind… All
- The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look… Any
- There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something… Acrimonious
- Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and… Able
- The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment… Achieve
- Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. Build
- It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be… All
- The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… Achieve
- Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no… Alone
- He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life. Agent
- The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public… Adolescent
- They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of… All
- When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. Any
- Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you. Alcoholics
- Could she *be* anymore out of my league? Anymore
- Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself… Angeles
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