I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.
Raymond ChandlerTags: humor
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond ChandlerTags: writing on-writing revision
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerThere is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond ChandlerCalifornia, the department store state.
Raymond ChandlerIt was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond ChandlerTags: sex-appeal blonde
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
Raymond ChandlerI looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
Raymond ChandlerPolice business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...
Raymond ChandlerTags: politics reality ideals police
I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.
Raymond ChandlerTags: marlowe goldfish olympia raymond-chandler
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