Quotations from Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler is one of the great American writers of the 20th Century. The fact that he wrote mostly genre crime fiction does nothing to diminish that accomplishment. Like many a great writer he used his art for social commentary, particularly on what he observed in Southern California.

Here are a selection of his quotes, both from his novels and his other works.

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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.

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He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.

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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.

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

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of decadence.

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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

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

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I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

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I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful

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

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It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch.

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

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The voice dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed.

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Quotations from Raymond Chandler

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