There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. Raymond Chandler
 Autobiography Honesty

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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 Quotes

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

 American Writer
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 Quotes

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

 Alcohol And Alcoholism American Writer
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

 Glamour
I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i - Raymond Chandler Quotes

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i

Raymond Chandler

 Fraud
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.

Raymond Chandler

 Television
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Raymond Chandler

 Cinema
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. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

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.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer Justice
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer Boston
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. - Raymond Chandler Quotes

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Raymond Chandler

 American Writer
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, - Raymond Chandler Quotes

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,

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