Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

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

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press e >>

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Holl >>

Quotations about Autobiography

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool >>

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous >>

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensib >>

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

Chandler, Raymond