It's so hard for women-even nice women-to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.
("The Big Sleep")
More Quotes from Raymond Chandler:
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.Raymond Chandler
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler
A city with no more personality than a paper cup.
Raymond Chandler
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
Raymond Chandler
A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing.
Raymond Chandler
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: women-even, women-toI think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
Jason Patric
I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.
Jewel Kilcher
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson