Quote

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

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
Romance
Meaning
Nice
Going
Alcoholics
Leather
Dating
Complaining
Wearing

More quotes by Raymond Chandler

Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
Raymond Chandler
Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
Raymond Chandler
Image
I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
Raymond Chandler
Image
But nothing seems to do any good.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
Raymond Chandler
Image
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
Raymond Chandler
Image
You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Raymond Chandler
Image
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
Raymond Chandler
Image
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
Image
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The streets were dark with something more then night.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
Raymond Chandler
Image
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler
Image
He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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
California, the department store state.
Raymond Chandler
Image
Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
Raymond Chandler