“ She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam. Raymond Chandler
“ I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. Raymond Chandler
“ I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors Raymond Chandler
“ I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. Raymond Chandler
“ I opened the other envelope. It contained a photograph of a girl. The pose suggested a natural ease, or a lot of experience in being photographed. It showed darkish hair which might possibly have been… Raymond Chandler
“ And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in lik… Raymond Chandler
“ I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to… Raymond Chandler
“ The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something that they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not anymore.… Raymond Chandler
“ If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it.Caterpillar blood, I said. Raymond Chandler
“ 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 watchi… Raymond Chandler
“ I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association fo… Raymond Chandler
“ Well, George Anson Phillips is a kind of pathetic case... He was the sort of cop who would be likely to hang a pinch on a chicken thief, if he saw the guy steal the chicken and the guy fell down runni… Raymond Chandler
“ Marlowe's the name. The guy you've been trying to follow around for a couple of days.I ain't following anybody, doc.This jalopy is. Maybe you can't control it. Have it your own way. I'm now going to e… Raymond Chandler
“ She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens. Raymond Chandler
“ I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance. I don't expect to go over ground the police have covered and pick up a broken pen point and build a case from it. If you think there is anybody in the detective… Raymond Chandler
“ A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. Raymond Chandler
“ So you shoot people, she said quietly. You're a killer.Me? How?The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read.Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or bo… Raymond Chandler
“ Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler
