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Raymond Chandler Quotes
«The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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acrimonious, gaudiness, miasma, offensive, repel, repels
«That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.»
«I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print.»
«What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«It is not a fragrant world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
«The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.»