Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.
Raymond ChandlerThe moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond ChandlerYou can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.
Raymond ChandlerTags: inspirational humorous
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
Raymond ChandlerThe other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because if I ever had I would have stayed in the town where I was born and worked in the hardware store and married the boss's daughter and had five kids and read them the funny paper on Sunday morning and smacked their heads when they got out of line and squabbled with the wife about how much spending money they were to get and what programs they could have on the radio or TV set. I might even get rich - small-town rich, an eight-room house, two cars in the garage, chicken every Sunday and the Reader's Digest on the living room table, the wife with a cast-iron permanent and me with a brain like a sack of Portland cement. You take it, friend. I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city.
Raymond ChandlerHer eyes ate me.
Raymond ChandlerThere are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)
Tags: science inspirational truth art humanity emotion
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 ChandlerTags: raymond-chandler rich-people long-goodbye terry-lennox
Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle.
Raymond ChandlerA slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now.
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