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Only Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language…
- I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make…
- The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him…
- The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
- There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
- There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.
- All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium…
- Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.
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