You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
("The Big Sleep")
More Quotes from Raymond Chandler:
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.Raymond Chandler
It's so hard for women-even nice women-to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.
Raymond Chandler
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.
Raymond Chandler
He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
Raymond Chandler
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passT before it gets into print.
Raymond Chandler
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
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