A really good detective never gets married.
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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.Raymond Chandler
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
Raymond Chandler
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler
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.
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It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
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