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One Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
- 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…
- It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is…
- Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft…
- Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too…
- Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day…
- The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to…
- Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it
- [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…
- There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and…
- As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp…
- Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.
- One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.
- You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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