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Inspirational Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- It is not a fragrant world.
- I certainly admire people who do things.
- A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
- A really good detective never gets married.
- If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not…
- She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
- However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
- I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
- In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
- When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
- I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
- If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
- The streets were dark with something more then night.
- If you liked a book, don't meet the author
- The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
- Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it
- You can't have everything, even in California
- Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
- He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
- Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
- California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
- Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
- There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
- I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
- There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento