Author: Raymond Chandler

Quotes

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.

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

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

- Raymond Chandler

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

- Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

- Raymond Chandler

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

- Raymond Chandler

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

- Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

- Raymond Chandler

It is not a fragrant world.

It is not a fragrant world.

- Raymond Chandler

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.

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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