Raymond Chandler Quotes
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. A really good detective never gets married. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. 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. From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. 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. He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. I certainly admire people who do things. I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday. I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. 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. If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. It is not a fragrant world.
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