Raymond Chandler Berühmte Zitate
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41147138.html 30.08.1976 <br class="br">"Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books. I am very tough and have been known to break a Vienna roll with my bare hands." - Brief an seinen Agenten Edgar Carter. 5. Februar 1951 http://theamericanreader.com/5-february-1951-raymond-chandler-to-edgar-carter/
„Ich blickte den Revolver an, und der Revolver blickte mich an.“
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler Zitate und Sprüche
Raymond Chandler buch The Long Goodbye
https://martin-ramsauer-verlag.jimdo.com/die-neunte-reihe/erlesenes/raymond-chandler/ martin-ramsauer-verlag.jimdo.com <br class="br">"I set out the chess-board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a price specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency." - The Long Goodbye (1953). PT174 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=K2wD3ZjkzBIC&pg=PT174&dq=advertising
„Wir harten Jungs sind doch alle hoffnungslos sentimental.“
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41147138.html 30.08.1976 <br class="br">"All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart" - Brief an Roger Machell 7. Februar 1955 http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/06/books/bk-59816/3l
Raymond Chandler: Zitate auf Englisch
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
Quelle: The Big Sleep
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Variante: When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Kontext: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
Raymond Chandler buch The Simple Art of Murder
Quelle: The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
Quelle: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 6
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
Raymond Chandler buch Farewell, My Lovely
Quelle: Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
Quelle: The Big Sleep
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
Raymond Chandler buch The Long Goodbye
Quelle: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler buch The Lady in the Lake
Quelle: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler buch Pearls are a Nuisance
"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
Quelle: Pearls are a Nuisance
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Raymond Chandler buch Pearls are a Nuisance
Quelle: Pearls are a Nuisance
Raymond Chandler buch The Lady in the Lake
Quelle: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler buch The Little Sister
Quelle: The Little Sister (1949), chapter 1
“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
Raymond Chandler buch The Little Sister
Quelle: The Little Sister
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
Quelle: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25
Raymond Chandler buch The Long Goodbye
Quelle: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler buch The High Window
Quelle: The High Window (1942), chapter 36
Kontext: When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Raymond Chandler buch The Big Sleep
Quelle: The Big Sleep
