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
"To say goodbye is to die a little."
"الوداع موتٌ صغير."
Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye
"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
"It is not a fragrant world."
"ليس هذا العالم فواحًا."
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."
"عصرٌ يعجز عن الشعر، يعجز عن كل أدب سوى براعة الانحطاط."
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."
"الخمر كالحب تماماً. القُبلة الأولى سحر، والثانية حميمية، والثالثة عادة. وما بعدها، تُنزع ثياب الفتاة."
Raymond Chandler
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable."
"إن نصف الروايات البوليسية المنشورة على الأقل تخالف القانون الذي يقضي بأن الحل، متى كُشف عنه، يجب أن يبدو حتميًا لا مفر منه."
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."
"قد يكون البطل قد خارت قواه، مؤقتًا أو إلى الأبد، ولا يدري. حين لا تعود يده قادرة على إطلاق رمياته الصارمة، يرمي بقلبه عوضًا عنها. إنه لا بد أن يرمي شيئًا. لا يولي ظهره للميدان باكيًا."
Raymond Chandler
"A good title is the title of a successful book."
"خير العناوين ما كان عنوان كتاب ناجح."
Raymond Chandler
"There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others."
"ليس ثمة ويسكي سيء. بل هناك فقط أنواع من الويسكي ليست بجودة الأنواع الأخرى."
Raymond Chandler
"She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam."
"صبت لنا المزيد من السكوتش. لم يبدُ أن ذلك يؤثر فيها أكثر مما يؤثر الماء في سد بولدر."
Raymond Chandler
"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
"عندما يساورك الشك، اجعل رجلاً يدخل من الباب وبندقية في يده."
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."
"كان الصوت باردًا، متمهلاً، ووقحًا، لكن العينين كانتا شيئًا آخر تمامًا. بدت عصية المنال كقصة شعر."
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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