Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler was an American crime fiction writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet who worked in the English language.
Born in Chicago on July 23, 1888, Chandler was educated at Dulwich College. He went on to produce a substantial body of work in the detective fiction genre, including novels such as The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback, and Poodle Springs. Alongside his novels, he also worked as a screenwriter. For his fiction, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
Chandler died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla. His output across novels, screenplays, and poetry was consistently rooted in the detective fiction genre, and that genre runs through the bulk of his recognized work.
Quotes by Raymond Chandler
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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year, just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.
Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumor.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in the stained glass window.
But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, and who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
I went out of the kitchen to make coffee — yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.
Alcohol is like love; the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that, you just take the girl's clothes off.
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.