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Raymond Chandler Quotes: 7

  • To say goodbye is to die a little.

    The Long Goodbye

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

    Long Goodbye

  • Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

  • Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

    The Big Sleep

  • A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

  • 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 of the tricks and has nothing to say.

  • There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.