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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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler
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The streets were dark with something more than night.
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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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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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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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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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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Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
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