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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Raymond Chandler

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler

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

Raymond Chandler

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

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

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A really good detective never gets married.

Raymond Chandler

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

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Raymond Chandler

I certainly admire people who do things.

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

The more you reason the less you create.

Raymond Chandler

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Raymond Chandler

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

Raymond Chandler

It is not a fragrant world.

Raymond Chandler

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

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.

Raymond Chandler

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

Raymond Chandler

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Raymond Chandler

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Raymond Chandler

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

Raymond Chandler