Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same. Raymond Chandler More Quotes by Raymond Chandler More Quotes From Raymond Chandler One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere. Raymond Chandler ifs would-be thinking A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. Raymond Chandler juice real rose She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts. Raymond Chandler girl sarcastic kind He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. Raymond Chandler heavy phones guy The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers. Raymond Chandler may dull world Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. Raymond Chandler eye god writing I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it. Raymond Chandler sober clean care It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. Raymond Chandler communication player baseball The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. 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 clothes real perfect An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. Raymond Chandler lovers want art The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. Raymond Chandler lawyer kind law Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood Raymond Chandler stupid mistake animal He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life. Raymond Chandler agents humour funny I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. Raymond Chandler regan chairs trouble Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted. Raymond Chandler couple together littles The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. Raymond Chandler couple reading book Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day. Raymond Chandler big-sleep shakes It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. Raymond Chandler voice hair silly The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. Raymond Chandler ridiculous becoming art You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. Raymond Chandler hats detectives tvs
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