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Raymond Chandler

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.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

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

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

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.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

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.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

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.

– Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

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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