All Raymond Chandler Quotes
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
Raymond Chandler
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
Raymond Chandler
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler
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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.
Raymond Chandler
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The streets were dark with something more than night.
Raymond Chandler
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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.
Raymond Chandler
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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Raymond Chandler
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler
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