Raymond Chandler Short Quotes

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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"Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."

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If you believe in an ideal, you don't own it, it owns you.

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Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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The Bible…is a lesson in how not to write for the movies.

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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

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You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

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"They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder."

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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

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I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

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The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

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A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.
Of Los Angeles

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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

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He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.

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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

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To the memory of Mr. Stan Phillips. (...) Just another four-flusher.

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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

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The old man nodded, as if his neck was afraid of the weight of his head.

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You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

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Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

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I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

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The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

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He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

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As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

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