I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

Raymond Chandler

Mots clés humor

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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Raymond Chandler

Mots clés writing on-writing revision

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

Raymond Chandler

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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California, the department store state.

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

Mots clés sex-appeal blonde

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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

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I 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.

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Mots clés marlowe quixotic

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Police 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...

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Mots clés politics reality ideals police

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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 Chandler

Mots clés marlowe goldfish olympia raymond-chandler

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