Raymond Chandler quotes

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Twenty-four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes peo ...
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and ...
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
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 w ...
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of mainta ...
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence ...
Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. Th ...
The more you reason the less you create.
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrim ...
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch o ...
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