Raymond Chandler
"In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns."
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"In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns."
"عند كتابة رواية، إذا ساورك الشك، فليقتحم رجلان الباب حاملين البنادق."
Raymond Chandler
"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon."
"تَقَيَّأْ في آلتِكَ الكاتِبَةِ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ، ثُمَّ نَظِّفْهَا كُلَّ ظُهْرٍ."
Raymond Chandler
"Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production."
"بلا سحرٍ، لا فنّ. وبلا فنّ، لا مثالية. وبلا مثالية، لا نزاهة. وبلا نزاهة، لا يبقى سوى الإنتاج."
Raymond Chandler
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
"منحتني ابتسامة شعرت بها في عمق وجداني."
Raymond Chandler
"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
"كان لافتاً للنظر كعنكبوت الرتيلاء على شريحة من كعكة الملائكة."
Raymond Chandler
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
"الشطرنج إهدارٌ معقدٌ للذكاء البشري، لا تجد له نظيرًا إلا في وكالات الإعلان."
Raymond Chandler
"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
Raymond Chandler
"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."
Raymond Chandler
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable."
Raymond Chandler
"The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep."
Raymond Chandler
"There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others."
Raymond Chandler
"She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam."
Raymond Chandler
"The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut."
Raymond Chandler
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
Raymond Chandler
"I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine."
Raymond Chandler
"A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet."
Raymond Chandler
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