If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
Raymond ChandlerIt is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
Raymond ChandlerWe have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] canโt produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." โ
Raymond Chandler