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Raymond Chandler Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
Tagged: Hate, Human Feelings, emotions, Moving On, Moving Forward, forgiveness
“If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.”
— Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Quote
Tagged: kindness, Survival, Bravery, Courage
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: goodbye, Sadness, Pain
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
Tagged: Truth, Enlightenment, Relief, Comfort, Honesty
“I was hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: Metaphor, self, Emptiness
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: goodbye, Death, Sadness, Pain, Leaving
“I didn't say anything. I was way past the age when it's fun to swear at people you can't hurt.”
— Philip Marlowe, Trouble Is My Business
Tagged: Life
“'I get so tired of it.'

'Tired of what?'

'Hard little men in hard little offices talking hard little words that don't mean a goddamn thing.'”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: strategy, Life, Being Tough
“Take the brass knuckles off before you start. If you're big enough you don't need them and if you need them you're not big enough to push me around.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: strategy, Life, Being Tough
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gun in the hand means the world by the tail.”
— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep
Tagged: Life
“I never do things by halves.”
— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep
Tagged: Life
“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: insults, talking, shut up
“When they use a .22 it means they don't make mistakes.”
— Philip Marlowe, Trouble Is My Business
Tagged: Life
“It's a question of a little money against a lot of annoyance.”
— Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep
Tagged: Life
“Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have your breaks relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarter back who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flack on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.”
— Philip Marlowe, Playback
Tagged: Life
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