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. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Raymond Chandler Read Quote
