Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. >>

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

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself ou >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favo >>

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it i >>

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it be >>

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Chandler, Raymond