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Raymond Chandler Quotes

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception Picture Quote #1

If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive Picture Quote #1

She was kind of girl who’d eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts Picture Quote #1

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective’s struggle to solve a problem Picture Quote #1

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic Picture Quote #1

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don’t want it any more Picture Quote #1

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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated Picture Quote #1

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men Picture Quote #1

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year Picture Quote #1

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn Picture Quote #1

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball Picture Quote #1

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life Picture Quote #1

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Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents Picture Quote #1

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability Picture Quote #1

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism Picture Quote #1

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off Picture Quote #1

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery Picture Quote #1

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off Picture Quote #1

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There’s always something to do if you don’t have to work or consider the cost. It’s no real fun but the rich don’t know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else’s wife and that’s a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber’s wife wants new curtains for the living room Picture Quote #1

There ain’t no clean way to make a hundred million bucks... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It’s the system Picture Quote #1

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split Picture Quote #1

Woe, woe, woe... In a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already Picture Quote #1

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law Picture Quote #1

A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock Picture Quote #1

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The old man nodded, as if his neck was afraid of the weight of his head Picture Quote #1

We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did Picture Quote #1

I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk Picture Quote #1

Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that Picture Quote #1

Alcohol is like love, he said. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off Picture Quote #1

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that Picture Quote #1

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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception (Raymond Chandler Quotes) If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive (Raymond Chandler Quotes) She was kind of girl who’d eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective’s struggle to solve a problem (Raymond Chandler Quotes) I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic (Raymond Chandler Quotes) I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don’t want it any more (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn (Raymond Chandler Quotes) When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents (Raymond Chandler Quotes) I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability (Raymond Chandler Quotes) There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off (Raymond Chandler Quotes) There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off (Raymond Chandler Quotes) There’s always something to do if you don’t have to work or consider the cost. It’s no real fun but the rich don’t know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else’s wife and that’s a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber’s wife wants new curtains for the living room (Raymond Chandler Quotes) There ain’t no clean way to make a hundred million bucks... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It’s the system (Raymond Chandler Quotes) When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split (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 Quotes) The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law (Raymond Chandler Quotes) A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock (Raymond Chandler Quotes) The old man nodded, as if his neck was afraid of the weight of his head (Raymond Chandler Quotes) We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did (Raymond Chandler Quotes) I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that (Raymond Chandler Quotes) Alcohol is like love, he said. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off (Raymond Chandler Quotes) What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?... You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that (Raymond Chandler Quotes)

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