Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
- Raymond Chandler
More Quotes By Raymond Chandler
- When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
- He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor...
- Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the...
- It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
- There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the...
- There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people...
- It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and...
- The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within...
- The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out...
- It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to...
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that...
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