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People Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- I certainly admire people who do things.
- The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off…
- 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…
- James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of…
- It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be…
- Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no…
- If people could deal with each other honestly, they would not need agents.
- Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at…
- Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.
- 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.
- 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…
- There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile…
- Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle