Quotes from the King of Detective Fiction, Raymond Chandler. Enjoy!

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you
do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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.

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

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd
better take one along that worked.

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.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a
constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is
more than one way to conquer a country.

It is not a fragrant world.

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

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let
us behave as though we were dead already.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel
food.

However top lofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always
rationalize his right to earn money.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is
fresh out of ideas.

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