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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
Raymond Chandler
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She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.
Raymond Chandler -
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler -
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
Raymond Chandler -
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
Raymond Chandler -
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
Raymond Chandler -
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
Raymond Chandler
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Raymond Chandler -
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler -
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Raymond Chandler -
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler -
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
Raymond Chandler
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If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
Raymond Chandler -
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
Raymond Chandler -
Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
Raymond Chandler -
To say goodbye is to die a little.
Raymond Chandler -
The streets were dark with something more then night.
Raymond Chandler -
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Raymond Chandler
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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
Raymond Chandler -
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Raymond Chandler -
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
Raymond Chandler