Poodle Springs Quotes

“So I cruised slowly around Hollywood looking at the hustlers and pimps, the tourists and hookers, the people from Plainfield, New Jersey, looking for stars, the prom queens from Shakopee, Minnesota, veterans already of the casting couches. They were all there on the boulevard, frightened, eager, angry, desperate, just and unjust; mingling, hurrying, hanging around, trying to get ahead, get a stake, get a chance, a kind word; looking for money, for love, for a place to sleep, trying to score some dope, some booze, something to eat; most of them alone, almost all of them lonely.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs

“Movement is sometimes an adequate substitute for action.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs

“Movie stars, directors, producers, agents, people who had found a way to package emptiness and sell it as dreams.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs

“He was a tall narrow guy with a bald head. Wisps of black hair were carefully plastered over it to make it look worse.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs

“Hollywood Boulevard looked like it always did in the morning, like a hooker with her make-up off.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs

“The air-conditioned room was full of cold, but Lipshultz was sweating.”
― Raymond Chandler, Poodle Springs