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  • May 6th, 2017 6:02pm

    What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.

    —

    Playback (1958) by Raymond Chandler.

    One of my absolute favorite quotes lol. 

  • 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.