Raymond Chandler

Birth: 1888-07-23 , Chicago

Death: 1959-03-26 , La Jolla

Raymond Chandler foi um romancista e contista americano, conhecido por seus romances policiais sombrios e atmosféricos. Ele é amplamente considerado um dos mestres do gênero "hard-boiled" e influenciou gerações de escritores. Suas histórias frequentemente apresentam o detetive particular Philip Marlowe, um personagem cínico e solitário que navega pelo submundo de Los Angeles. Chandler era conhecido por sua prosa afiada, diálogos espirituosos e descrições vívidas.

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[ Credo of fictional detective Philip Marlowe :] Trouble Is My Business.

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

Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that, you just take the girl’s clothes off.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

California, the department store state.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Don’t ever write anything you don’t like yourself and if you do like it, don’t take anyone else’s advice about changing it. They just don’t know.

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

I am convinced as a member of the reading public that bad [author] photographs are bad business. I have been put off reading books, which otherwise looked rather attractive, by the puss of the author printed on the back of the dust cover.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on the long winter evenings.

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