American - Writer | July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
Raymond Chandler
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The streets were dark with something more than night.
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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
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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.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
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