After a little while I felt a little better, but very little. I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
Raymond ChandlerBest putdown of a copy editor ever award goes to Raymond Chandler, who, in a 1947 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote: "By the way, 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 barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
Raymond ChandlerSuch a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
Raymond ChandlerShe’d make for a jazzy week-end, but she’d be wearing for a steady diet.
Raymond ChandlerIt’s so hard for women—even nice women—to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.
Raymond ChandlerYou can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
Raymond ChandlerThere ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
Raymond ChandlerStichwörter: pulp-fiction
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.
Raymond ChandlerStichwörter: writing the-simple-art-of-murder
She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.
Raymond ChandlerI don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
Raymond ChandlerStichwörter: detective detective-stories raymond-chandler detective-fiction hardboiled playback
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