Quotes from Raymond Chandler

Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than

He stared at me and his left hand began to edge towards the gun. He belonged to the Wandering Hand Society. The girls would have had a time with him.

Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than a cat. Neither have I. No Sternwood ever had. Proceed.

A very bad murderer," I said. "Like Shakespeare's Second Murderer in that scene in King Richard III. The fellow that had certain dregs of conscience, but still wanted the money, and in the end didn't do the job at all because he couldn't make up his mind. Such murderers are very dangerous. They have to be removed.

Alcohol is like love,' he said. 'The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.

If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

poisoned myself with cigarette smoke

The room was suddenly full of heavy silence, like a fallen cake. I went on out, parting the silence as if I was pushing my way through water.

He looked earnestly at me, as if that was important to me.

I have such a beautiful love for myself—and the sweet part of it—no rivals.

The thing looked cut and dried to them. A nasty affair between two rather nasty people, too much loving, too much drinking, too much proximity ending in a savage hatred and a murderous impulse and death.

You think you're hard-boiled but you're just a big slob that argues himself into a jam for the first tramp he finds in trouble.

We passed a big white two storied Monterey house that must have cost $70,000

On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

She leaned back and a pulse beat in her throat. She was exquisite, she was dark, she was deadly. And nothing would ever touch her, not even the law.

Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there's competition – hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories. Just so long as it doesn't damage the prestige and privilege and position of the owners. If it does, down comes the lid.

He was a very small man, not more than five feet three and would hardly weigh as much as a butcher's thumb. He had tight brilliant eyes that wanted to look hard, and looked as hard as oysters on the half shell.

Fejezzük be ezt a beszélgetést. Túlságosan sok benne a felkiáltójel.

To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye

I'm beginning to get it," I said slowly. "Take a family like yours and somebody in it has to be the dark meat.

I looked at my watch, put my pipe in an ashtray, and then had to look at my watch again to see what time it was

It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting.

He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around.

I walked along to the double doors and stood in front of them. They were motionless now. It wasn't any of my business. So I pushed them open and looked in.