Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep
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“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Variante: When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Contexte: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
Raymond Chandler livre The Simple Art of Murder
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 6
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
Raymond Chandler livre Farewell, My Lovely
Source: Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
Raymond Chandler livre The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler livre The Lady in the Lake
Source: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler livre Pearls are a Nuisance
"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
Source: Pearls are a Nuisance
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Raymond Chandler livre Pearls are a Nuisance
Source: Pearls are a Nuisance
Raymond Chandler livre The Lady in the Lake
Source: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler livre The Little Sister
Source: The Little Sister (1949), chapter 1
“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
Raymond Chandler livre The Little Sister
Source: The Little Sister
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25
Raymond Chandler livre The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler livre The High Window
Source: The High Window (1942), chapter 36
Contexte: When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Raymond Chandler livre The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep
