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For 30 years, ten months, and four days, she was the light of my life, my whole ambition. Anything else I did was just the fire for her to warm her hands at.
Raymond Chandler on Cissy Pascal, quoted in “Burning Witches” by Michael Rogin, London Review of Books (Sept 1997). One of my lost habits from grad school is faithfully reading the LRB. This is from Michaelmas 1997, St Antony’s Common Room. (via smalldemonsblog)
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vintageanchor: “I’m a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I’m a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I’ve been in jail more than once and I don’t do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don’t like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I’m a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

vintageanchor:

“I’m a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I’m a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I’ve been in jail more than once and I don’t do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don’t like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I’m a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone in my business, nobody will feel that the bottom has dropped out of his or her life.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

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Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books…I have friends from all walks of life. I have fourteen telephones on my desk, including direct lines to New York, London, Paris, Rome and Santa Rosa. My filing case opens out into a very convenient portable bar, and the bartender, who lives in the bottom drawer, is a midget. I am a very heavy smoker and according to my mood I smoke tobacco, marijuana, corn silk and dried leaves. I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes. I get my material in various ways, but my favorite procedure consists of going through the desks of other writers after hours. I am thirty-eight years old and have been for the last twenty years. I do not regard myself as a dead shot, but I am a pretty dangerous man with a wet towel. But all in all I think my favourite weapon is a twenty dollar bill.

— Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking

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amandaonwriting: Happy Birthday, Raymond Chandler! 9 Writing Quotes by Raymond Chandler. The challenge is to write about real things magically. Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. Raymond Thornton Chandler, born 23 July 1888, died 26 March 1959, was an American novelist and screenwriter. Image: Via View high resolution

amandaonwriting:

Happy Birthday, Raymond Chandler!

9 Writing Quotes by Raymond Chandler.

  1. The challenge is to write about real things magically.
  2. Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
  3. The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
  4. The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
  5. Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
  6. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
  7. In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
  8. When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
  9. The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

Raymond Thornton Chandler, born 23 July 1888, died 26 March 1959, was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (via honeychurch)
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From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.
The High Window