Quote by Raymond Chandler
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals wi

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. – Raymond Chandler

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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. – Raymond Chandler

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Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. – Bernardo Bertolucci

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I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no. – Samuel Goldwyn

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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. – Billie Burke

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