Big sleep Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image “As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big sleep Going out Honest Men Style Truth World
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Honestly seems to have gone out of style, funny how dishonesty is always in fashion. — Triquetra Dawn 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
During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — raymond chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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