71 Quotations by Raymond Chandler
- 21. I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
- 22. I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself ge ...
- 23. I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the ...
- 24. If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an ...
- 25. In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod ...
- 26. In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
- 27. It is not a fragrant world.
- 28. It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a ...
- 29. It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a ...
- 30. It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
- 31. It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated pe ...
- 32. Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good write ...
- 33. Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ...
- 34. She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
- 35. She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from ...
- 36. So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive ...
- 37. Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis ...
- 38. Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more de ...
- 39. Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe ...
- 40. That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He ...
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