Source: The High Window: A Novel
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Famous Raymond Chandler Quotes
Source: Great stories of mystery and suspense
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Source: the big sleep
“Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.”
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
Source: Farewell, my lovely
“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”
Source: Spanish blood: a collection of short stories
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Source: Playback: A Novel
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Source: The High Window: A Novel
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.”
Source: Stories and Early Novels
“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
Source: The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
“Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“She had eyes like strange sins.”
Source: The High Window: A Novel
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
Source: Trouble Is My Business: A Novel
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
“I certainly admire people who do things.”
Source: Strangers on a Train: Part I, Final : [screenplay
“I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.”
Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
“A really good detective never gets married.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
“The more you reason the less you create.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking