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  • February 23rd, 2016 10:13pm

    I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look forward to reading it and then putting it to one side while I break the ice on a couple more. In that way, when I feel dull and depressed, which is often, I know I have something to read late at night when I do most of it and not that horrid blank feeling of not having anybody to talk to or listen to.

    — Raymond Chandler

  • February 20th, 2016 2:08am

    According to the La Jolla legend, it was at the La Plaza restaurant that Raymond Chandler once snubbed J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous Director of the FBI. Spotting Chandler at a table with his wife, Cissy, Hoover told a waitress to have the writer come to his table so that he might meet him. Chandler instructed the waitress that if Hoover wanted to meet him, he could leave his own table. Hoover was furious, and loudly told the people with whom he was eating that he could have Chandler ‘investigated.’

    —

    Raymond Chandler: A Biography by Tom Hiney.

    The more I read about him, the more I’m convinced I was Chandler in my previous life lmao. 

  • October 28th, 2015 6:39pm

    I had no feeling of identity with the United States, and yet I resented the ignorant and snobbish criticism of Americans that was current at that time…most of them seemed to have a lot of bounce and liveliness and to be thoroughly enjoying themselves where the average Englishman of the same class would be stuffy or completely bored.

    — Raymond Chandler.

  • October 23rd, 2015 5:57pm

    I do not, and I hope I never shall, admit that sex is a thing to be treated as if it were of no great consequence. You can make all sorts of jokes about it, mostly lewd (I’ve made them myself) but at the bottom of his heart every decent man feels that his approach to the woman he loves is an approach to a shrine.

    — Raymond Chandler.

  • September 15th, 2015 2:30am

    The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn’t take things too much to heart. He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won’t get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.

    — Raymond Chandler (via writingquotes)

  • August 30th, 2014 1:56am

    There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

    — Helen Keller – reflecting on the coincidence that one of her Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich.