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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Written by Raymond Chandler
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Written by 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.
Written by Raymond Chandler
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Written by Raymond Chandler
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Written by Raymond Chandler
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Written by Raymond Chandler
It is not a fragrant world.
Written by Raymond Chandler
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Written by 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.
Written by Raymond Chandler
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Written by Raymond Chandler
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Written by Raymond Chandler
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Written by Raymond Chandler
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
Written by Raymond Chandler
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Written by Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Written by Raymond Chandler
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
Written by Raymond Chandler
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Written by Raymond Chandler
A really good detective never gets married.
Written by Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The streets were dark with something more than night.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The more you reason the less you create.
Written by Raymond Chandler
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Written by Raymond Chandler
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Written by Raymond Chandler
I certainly admire people who do things.
Written by Raymond Chandler
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
Written by Raymond Chandler
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Written by Raymond Chandler

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