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chandlerisms

  1. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it’s always somebody else’s money he's adding up. 3:40 PM Jan 11th via Twitter for Mac
  2. She sighed. “All men are the same.” “So are all women—after the first nine.” She damned me and hung up. 2:45 PM Sep 7th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  3. I finished my drink and got the thirsty look on my face again. She ignored it. 3:30 PM Jul 12th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  4. They always have a gun in the drawer and they always get it too late, if they get it at all. 1:46 PM Jun 30th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  5. It was a nice walk if you liked grunting. 12:49 PM Jun 26th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  6. She had a rich deep down around the ankles contralto that was pleasant to listen to. 2:46 PM Jun 19th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  7. He smiled his first smile of the day. He probably allowed himself four. 6:35 AM Apr 19th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  8. He had a long nose that would be into things. 10:09 AM Apr 15th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  9. ‘You're not going to turn out to be one of those drunken detectives, are you?’ she asked anxiously. 9:17 AM Mar 29th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  10. Class is a thing that has a way of dissolving rapidly in alcohol. 2:27 PM Mar 11th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  11. A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. 11:38 AM Mar 6th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  12. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. 11:14 AM Mar 1st, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  13. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. 5:47 PM Feb 14th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  14. A shave and a second breakfast made me feel a little less like the box of shavings the cat had had kittens in. 6:03 AM Feb 3rd, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  15. The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut. 11:12 AM Jan 31st, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  16. I sniffed the liquor, which was Scotch, and used some of it. It made my head feel worse but it made the rest of me feel better. 12:32 AM Jan 19th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  17. He wanted to buy some sweetness and light and not the kind that comes through the east window of a church. 5:42 PM Jan 6th, 2011 via web
  18. Beyond the beach a curving bay was bluer than any bay has any right to be. 1:33 PM Jan 1st, 2011 via web
  19. Her voice was light and dry now, like the perfume she didn't like to wear at the office. 2:24 PM Dec 30th, 2010 via web
  20. After all these years I can never put a cigarette in a girl's mouth where she wants it. 6:36 AM Sep 29th, 2010 via Twitter for iPad
  • Name Raymond Chandler
  • Location Los Angeles, 1939
  • Web http://chandleris...
  • Bio I do all my work on yellow paper, sheets cut in half, typed the long way, triple-spaced.
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