Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““A occasional whiff of his personality drifted back to me.”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Just a feeling that reminded him of a whole different time, a different version of himself.” — Teresa Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I couldn't turn away from his piecing, infectious gaze. He was wrong and tragic and gorgeous all at the same time. At that… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“And when I say that he lost his head, what I mean is not that his judgement abandoned him but that his enthusiasms and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I liked to hear him talk, skipping from one thought to another with his eclectic mix of innocence, wisdom, mild mysticism and earthiness.” — Fabian Black Copy Share Image
“He didn't move, just stood with a pleasant smile. But I wouldn't be fooled. How many times had I faces just like his on… — Jennifer Laurens Copy Share Image
“I gaped at the cold shock of his beauty, deep-green eyes, features fine as a girl's. It struck from me a sudden, springing dislike.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window.” — Rinsai Rossetti Copy Share Image
“I began noticing that he only tensed up around certain people. Curiously, they were the same people I’d always had an off feeling about…the… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
![“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote…” quote by Raymond Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/882/raymond-chandler-629_dashiel-hammett_hammett-was-the-ace-performer-he-is-said_20171.jpg)
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