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Raymond Chandler Quotes

«The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | About: Reading | Keywords: flood, gulp, gulping, savoring, The Flood
«The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.»
«The streets were dark with something more than night.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: The Streets
«Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.»
«A city with no more personality than a paper cup.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: cup, paper cup
«An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: cleverness
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.»
«She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: fawn, fawning, fawns, jerked
«The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.»
«If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.»
Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: invited

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