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When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Grammar]
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Alcohol]
However top lofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Money]
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Television]
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Television]
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
  - Raymond Chandler more quotations on [Smiles]
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