Quote

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Raymond Chandler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Killing
Dying
Hard
Time

More quotes by Raymond Chandler

Image
She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
Raymond Chandler
Image
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
Raymond Chandler
Image
I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
Raymond Chandler
Image
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
Raymond Chandler
Image
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
Raymond Chandler
Image
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
Raymond Chandler
Image
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
Raymond Chandler
Image
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
Raymond Chandler
Image
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
Raymond Chandler
Image
I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
Raymond Chandler
Image
He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
Raymond Chandler