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Thinking Quotes by Raymond Chandler
- I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
- Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys…
- 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 said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that…
- One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.
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