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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 59e56e4 | The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night--to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| ff57260 | Los jovenes que quieren que uno les ensene a escribir no hacen lo que hago yo [tachar, corregir, reescribir]. Esperan que todo lo que escriben sea publicado tal cual. No estan dispuestos a sacrificar nada para aprender el oficio. No les entra en la cabeza que lo que uno quiere hacer y lo que puede hacer son cosas completamente distintas. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9e83f88 | sight and snapped a switch on his call box. 'Have | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9805743 | On occasion I read Raymond Chandler although I have certain reservations about this author. Chandler, while obviously a master of his craft, makes overuse of simile, to my annoyance. | raymond-chandler simile | Jack Vance | |
| 7e0cb20 | He looked up rather sadly. "So would I. So would we all. But show business has always been like that--any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard--well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 46b3970 | Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred hard guys that got knocked over on their first caper and never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| a9f203f | I stopped thinking. Lights moved behind my closed lids. I was lost in space. I was a gilt-edged sap come back from a vain adventure. I was a hundred dollar package of dynamite that went off with a noise like a pawnbroker looking at a dollar watch. I was a pink-headed bug crawling up the side of the City Hall. I was asleep. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| b9810d4 | But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor--by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his wor.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 4edc222 | There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard and Carne knew all of them. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 0c382c3 | There was a woman. She was rich. She thought she wanted to marry me. It wouldn't have worked. I'll probably never see her again. But I remember." "Let's go," she said quietly. "And let's leave the memory in charge. I only wish I had one worth remembering." On the way down to the Cadillac I didn't touch her either. She drove beautifully. When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 4c946d2 | They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 569f5d1 | You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting) | Raymond Chandler | ||
| ad4faf1 | I need not add that a man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 8d3871d | The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. --RAYMOND CHANDLER, NOTEBOOKS | Zach Dundas | ||
| ba7bba2 | She went out slowly. The way she did it hadn't been learned at business college. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 2f79eee | Less saw its marks and scars and aches not as failures of age but the opposite: the evidence, as Raymond Chandler once wrote, of "a gaudy life." | Andrew Sean Greer | ||
| 6590c02 | From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away. Her mouth was too wide, her eyes | Raymond Chandler | ||
| e15e09a | It got darker. I thought; and thought in my mind moved with a kind of sluggish stealthiness, as if it was being watched by bitter and sadistic eyes. I thought of dead eyes looking at a moonless sky, with black blood at the corners of the mouths beneath them. I thought of nasty old women beaten to death against the posts of their dirty beds. I thought of a man with bright blond hair who was afraid and didn't quite know what he was afraid of,.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| afd284e | No estoy dispuesto a hablar, Eddie. ?Por que iba a hacerlo? Dejo la pistola sobre el escritorio y la golpeo con la mano abierta. - Esto -dijo-. Y yo podria hacer que le resultara provechoso. - Ya, eso suena mejor. No meta la pistola en este asunto. Yo siempre estoy dispuesto a escuchar el sonido del dinero. | detective dinero pistola | Raymond Chandler | |
| d33d9a2 | Dont get fancy, buster. I might loosen your jaw for you." "Ha, ha," I said. "You might play centre field for the Yankees and hit a home run with a breadstick." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 8abea15 | Parecia mas muerto que muchos cadaveres | muerte | Raymond Chandler | |
| 7a4a64b | She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 852df79 | On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 3cbeac2 | Breeze looked at me very steadily. Then he sighed. Then he picked the glass up and tasted it and sighed again shook his head sideways with a half smile; the way a man does when you give him a drink and he needs it very badly and it is just right and the first swallow is like a peek into a cleaner, sunnier, brighter world. | booze raymond-chandler | Raymond Chandler | |
| 477c4bc | There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount; it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 82ab4ea | Chanukah. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 542fedd | read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a4455c7 | It was like sending a dog to review Cats. | Paul Murray | ||
| afa75e1 | When Jude says, "Pray in the Spirit and keep in the love of God," he expresses the same thought as Paul, namely that the Holy Spirit wants to cherish us in God's love in the same manner that the sun warms us each day." -- | Andrew Murray | ||
| af42bde | Jeremy Taylor recommends: "If though meanest to enlarge they religion, do it rather by enlarging thine ordinary devotions than thy extraordinary." This advice describes very accurately the plan of spiritual life on which Mr. McCheyne acted. He did occasionally set apart seasons for special prayer and fasting, occupying the time so set apart exclusively in devotion. But the real secret of his soul's prosperity lay in the daily enlargement of.. | Andrew Bonar | ||
| 655020b | Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer. | Andrew Murray | ||
| f6faaaa | wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 043d26e | Non-teenagers might find his appeal difficult to understand, as he isn't especially handsome, or big, or even funny; his features are striking only in their regularity, the overall effect being one of solidity, steadiness, the quiet self-assurance one might associate with, for instance, a long-established and successful bank. But that, in fact, is the whole point. One look at Titch, in his regulation Dubarrys, Ireland jersey and freshly top.. | Paul Murray | ||
| a53d451 | Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart? | Paul Murray | ||
| 1f287da | It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.' 'Maybe it reminds them of school,' she suggests. 'Didn't someone describe the trenches as ninety-nine per cent boredom and one per cent terror?' 'I don't know about boredom. God, the chaos of it, the brutality. And it's so vivid. I'd definitely be interested in reading his poetry, if only to see how he can g.. | love poetry war | Paul Murray | |
| 93b88e6 | But the class has already fizzed away, and Howard is left as he always is, wondering if anyone has been listening to a single thing he's said; he can practically see his words crumpled up on the floor. | Paul Murray | ||
| 99b3fec | Her sister tells her she's depressed. 'Worrying that you're turning into Mom is like the textbook definition of depression. The depression textbooks all have pictures of our mom in them. Quit that fucking job, already. I don't understand why you don't. | Paul Murray | ||
| 8361041 | She pulls a face and mutters something. 'Seriously, though, why don't you?' 'Oh, for Christ's sake - I don't know, Howard. Maybe this is all I'm good for. Maybe office equipment is all there is to write about.' He withdraws his hand, exasperated. 'Well, if you won't do anything about it, then you've got to stop complaining.' 'I'm not complaining, if you ever actually listened to what I -' 'I do listen, that's the problem, I'm listening all .. | Paul Murray | ||
| 60653cf | father figure to Jobs. REGIS MCKENNA. Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. MIKE MURRAY. Early Macintosh marketing director. PAUL OTELLINI. CEO of Intel who helped switch the Macintosh to Intel chips but did not get the iPhone business. LAURENE POWELL. Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9010b73 | Es geht darum, dass [...] die Menschen immer irgendwohin gehen. Dass alle immer nicht da sein wollen, wo sie sind. [...] Oder dass sie anders sein wollen. [...] Sie sind so damit beschaftigt, irgendwo anders hinzukommen, dass sie gar nicht die Welt sehen, in der sie sind. [...] Statt nach Wegen aus unserem Leben heraus zu suchen, sollten wir lieber nach Wegen in das Leben hinein suchen. | Paul Murray | ||
| 5adf3a9 | Letztendlich sind es ja doch unsere eigenen Erwartungen, an denen wir zugrunde gehen. | Paul Murray | ||
| f4ca5ea | Die Grundstruktur des Universums ist so beschaffen, dass sich die Dinge nie ausgleichen. Der Toast fallt mit der Butterseite auf den Boden. Intelligente Schuler werden gemobbt, statt dass man sie als die zukunftigen fuhrenden Kopfe der Gesellschaft respektiert. Du kriegst nicht, was du willst, aber jemand anderes, der es gar nicht will, hat es in rauen Mengen. Asymmetrie. Wo man auch hinschaut. | Paul Murray | ||
| 5647b67 | Next!' The judgement issues summarily from the review panel before Sexecutioner has even a chance to drop his first motherfucker. For a moment, the boys remain rooted to the spot in ungangsta-like attitudes of woundedness, mocked by the drumbeat that is still thumping around them; then, unplugging the ghettoblaster, they clamber down and make the walk of shame to the exit. 'What in God's name was that?' the Automator says as soon as they ha.. | Paul Murray | ||
| 779c1c6 | A tiny number of very rich people, including fat cat bankers like us, are sucking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the wealth. And that gap will continue to widen, because with all our extra capital we go and buy up all the assets, so that for instance when Chang working down there in Spar needs somewhere to live, he has to rent his house from me, meaning that I'm getting most of his wages too. Now, provided you're me and not Chang, tha.. | Paul Murray |