All Raymond Chandler Quotes
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.
Raymond Chandler
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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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.
Raymond Chandler
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The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
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