All Raymond Chandler Quotes
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.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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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.
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