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From Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from…
- Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all.…
- She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
- 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…
- There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough.…
- 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…
- The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
- 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…
- [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and…
- I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had…
- All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its…
- You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
- There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got…
- 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 and…
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