Raymond Chandler Quotes

• Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Death

  Tags in People

• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Life

• The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extraordinary, Ordinary

• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Challenging, Expression, Human

• Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Already, Dead, Little

• When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hand, Door, Man

• When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in God

  Tags in Stay

• The streets were dark with something more than night.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something

• The more you reason the less you create.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Create

• The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Moment

• The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proof, Moment

• The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Gentleman, Moment

• The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Justice

• The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Process, Turned, Reading

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, World, Best

• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meet, Creative, Artist

• The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Little, Effect

• Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Buck, Just

• She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

Raymond Chandler (63)

Birth:	23rd July, 1888
Death:	26th March, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.

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