Raymond Chandler citations

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Source: The High Window

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Contexte: I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Source: The Simple Art of Murder

Source: Trouble Is My Business

Source: Playback

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28, Phillip Marlowe watching Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars

Source: The Long Goodbye

Source: Farewell, My Lovely

Source: The Big Sleep

Variante: Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
Source: The Long Goodbye

In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Contexte: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.

Source: Farewell, My Lovely

Source: Selected Letters

Source: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Contexte: The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)

essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)

Source: Playback (1958), chapter 17

Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 20

The Long Goodbye (1954)

Source: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 34

"Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" (essay, 1949), first published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)

letter, 19 April 1951, published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 2