Quote by Raymond Chandler
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off. – Raymond Chandler

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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler

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They dont want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they cant use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them. – Raymond Chandler

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it. – Maxim Gorky

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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. – Samuel Johnson

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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? – William Shakespeare

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