Best Raymond Chandler Thoughts
- She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know… Air
- I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. Chair
- Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. Any
- You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate. Been
- It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought… Bells
- One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere. Anywhere
- I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. Banana
- 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 of being pulled… Better
- Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know. Advice
- The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. Actual
- The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love. Air
- She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight. Mahal
- I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard. Beard
- A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. Bloom
- I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long. All
- The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die… Always Right
- Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. Almost Without
- Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day. All
- I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin. Girl
- Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron. Days
- Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably… Americans
- If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive. Alive
- She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. Began
- The challenge is to write about real things magically. Challenge
- There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that.… Always Something
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