Collected Stories Quotes

“I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish.”
― Raymond Chandler, Collected Stories

“The little one-story house was as neat as a fresh pinafore. The front lawn was cut lovingly and very green. The smooth composition driveway was free of grease spots from standing cars, and the hedge that bordered it looked as though the barber came every day.

The white door had a knocker with a tiger's head, a go-to-hell window and a dingus that let someone inside talk to someone outside without even opening the little window.

I'd have given a mortgage on my left leg to live in a house like that. I didn't think I ever would.

(The Pencil)”
― Raymond Chandler, Collected Stories

“Me pareció que estaba tan loco como una pareja de ratones bailarines, pero me cayó bien.”
― Raymond Chandler, Nunca soñaron con la posteridad: Relatos completos

“«… lo que se exigía era acción constante; si te parabas a pensar, estabas perdido. En caso de duda, haz que entre por la puerta un hombre con una pistola en la mano. Esto podía llegar a ser muy tonto, pero de alguna manera no parecía importar».”
― Raymond Chandler, Nunca soñaron con la posteridad: Relatos completos