Раймонд Чандлер: Цитаты на английском языке

Источник: The High Window

Источник: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Контексте: I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

Источник: The Simple Art of Murder

Источник: Trouble Is My Business

Источник: Playback

Источник: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28, Phillip Marlowe watching Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars

Источник: The Long Goodbye

Источник: Farewell, My Lovely

Источник: The Big Sleep

Вариант: Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
Источник: The Long Goodbye

In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Контексте: By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.

Источник: Farewell, My Lovely

Источник: Selected Letters

Источник: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Контексте: The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.

essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)