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.
Raymond Chandler

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler

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

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Raymond Chandler

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Raymond Chandler

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Raymond Chandler

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.
Raymond Chandler

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler

The more you reason the less you create.
Raymond Chandler

The streets were dark with something more than night.
Raymond Chandler

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
Raymond Chandler

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

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