The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after…

Raymond Chandler
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2002). The Long Goodbye: A Novel, p.20, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2002). The Simple Art of Murder, p.115, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ✨ Raymond Chandler (2014). The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words, p.87 … ▶
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ✨ Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. ✨ The Long Goodbye ch. 12 (1953)

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