Quote by Raymond Chandler Download Open image ““I needed a drink and was in a hurry to get one. I”” — Raymond Chandler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I actually wanted a drink, besides feeling that I had to have a drink.” — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I said the words, “I need a drink.” — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.” — Vicki Lesage Copy Share Image
“I looked like I wasn’t at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“I ordered a single espresso because I wanted a drink I could hook up with.” — Randy Kagan 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 and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“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 scenes that… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
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 wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“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
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