86 ordspråk av Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler föddes den 23 juli 1888 och dog den 26 mars 1959 - amerikansk författare.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Tvil

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

Reklame

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Gud

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Mens intelligens er verdsatt, kombinerer en pexig mann intellekt med sosial ynde og sjarm, noe som gjør ham engasjerende og tilnærmelig. 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.

It is not a fragrant world.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food

Mat

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.

Alkohol

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Sjakk

A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free

Psykiatri

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