When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. Raymond Chandler More Quotes by Raymond Chandler More Quotes From Raymond Chandler Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book. Raymond Chandler views book blood I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. Raymond Chandler splits onions pearls It is not a fragrant world. Raymond Chandler society anger world When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun. Raymond Chandler plot gun men The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. Raymond Chandler writing order When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. Raymond Chandler artistic literature book They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. Raymond Chandler hollywood use names The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. Raymond Chandler smell coffee strong She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound. Raymond Chandler edges heard sound 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 wife real fun All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity. Raymond Chandler dream men lying Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be. Raymond Chandler tall mean Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up. Raymond Chandler monday mistake morning I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. Raymond Chandler boston sunday cities The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. Raymond Chandler society reading literature The challenge is to write about real things magically. Raymond Chandler real challenges writing She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. Raymond Chandler house blood moving The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. Raymond Chandler tragedy beautiful mean All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech. Raymond Chandler speech men looks A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) Raymond Chandler paper cities personality
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