Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude tha >>

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obv >>

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a >>

Quotations about Hollywood

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for w >>

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for sta >>

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with t >>

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

Chandler, Raymond