Raymond Chandler słynne cytaty
Źródło: Pokerowe cytaty http://www.kasyno-internetowe.pl/cytaty.html
Źródło: notka napisana do Suplementu pisarzy XX wieku, [za:] Mówi Chandler (Raymond Chandler speaking)
Raymond Chandler cytaty
Długie pożegnanie
Źródło: list do Jamesa Sandoe, krytyka literackiego, z 17 października 1948 [za:] Mówi Chandler („Raymond Chandler speaking”)
„Żegnać się, to tak, jakby trochę umierać.”
Długie pożegnanie
Cissy to starsza od męża o 18 lat żona Chandlera, zmarła 12 grudnia 1954.
Źródło: list do Hamisha Hamiltona, wydawcy książek Chandlera, z 5 stycznia 1955 [za:] Mówi Chandler („Raymond Chandler speaking”)
„Mogłabym ci kupić cały świat, pod warunkiem, że byłby wart kupienia.”
Długie pożegnanie
Raymond Chandler: Cytaty po angielsku
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Wariant: 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.”
opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Kontekst: 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.
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
Źródło: Farewell, My Lovely
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
Źródło: The Long Goodbye
"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
Źródło: Pearls are a Nuisance
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Źródło: Pearls are a Nuisance
“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
Źródło: The Little Sister
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
Źródło: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25
Źródło: The High Window (1942), chapter 36
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: The Big Sleep