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Raymond Chandler8 quotes
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. — Raymond Chandler · 1953There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. — Raymond Chandler · 1953I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. — Raymond Chandler · 1939A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. — Raymond Chandler · 1949Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. — Raymond Chandler · 1944It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. — Raymond Chandler · 1940All 8 quotes →