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Novel · Detective fiction

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

The Long Goodbye · 1953

★ 5.2

Novel

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye · 1953

★ 3.7

Novel · Detective fiction

I 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

The Big Sleep · 1939

★ 3.6

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder · 1944

★ 3.6

Novel · Detective fiction

A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.

Raymond Chandler

1949

★ 3.6

Novel · Detective fiction

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

Raymond Chandler

1940

★ 3.5

Novel · Detective fiction

Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely · 1940

★ 1.9

Essay

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

Raymond Chandler

1950

★ 1.9

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