Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959), full name Raymond Thornton Chandler, was a American-British novelist and screenwriter.

Wisdom & Quotes

• In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

- The Simple Art of Murder

• Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean; who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

- The Simple Art of Murder

• It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

- Farewell, My Lovely

• If you believe in an ideal, you don't own you, it owns you.

- quoted by F MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler

George Bernanos