{"author":"Raymond Chandler","author_id":"Raymond+Chandler","total_quotes":69,"quotes":[{"text":"There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["drinking","whiskey"],"id":4493,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["craft","critics","detachment","insight","writing"],"id":10184,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["poetry","literature","kind "],"id":13509,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["alcoholism","drinking"],"id":15255,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["conscience","interrogation","police","trust","truth"],"id":29172,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["advertising","chess","you "],"id":37271,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["ogling","staring","trouble","women"],"id":57008,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["fog","ocean","surf","thought"],"id":60636,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["crime","farewell","noir","velma"],"id":65739,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not strength, flipness is not wit, edge-of-the-chair writing can be as boring as flat writing; dalliance with promiscuous blondes can be very dull stuff when described by goaty young men with no other purpose in mind than to describe dalliance with promiscuous blondes.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["the-simple-art-of-murder","writing"],"id":66468,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}