Frasi di Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Thornton Chandler è stato uno scrittore statunitense di romanzi giallo-polizieschi.

✵ 23. Luglio 1888 – 26. Marzo 1959   •   Altri nomi Raymont Chandler, Ρέημοντ Τσάντλερ, ریموند چندلر
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Raymond Chandler: Frasi in inglese

“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”

Raymond Chandler libro Farewell, My Lovely

Origine: Farewell, My Lovely

“She had eyes like strange sins.”

Raymond Chandler libro The High Window

Origine: The High Window

“Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il grande sonno

Origine: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Contesto: 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.

“She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il grande sonno

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

“I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il lungo addio

Origine: The Long Goodbye

“Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il grande sonno

Origine: The Big Sleep

“I'm killing time and it's dying hard.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il lungo addio

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

“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”

In a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Contesto: 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.

“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”

Raymond Chandler libro Farewell, My Lovely

Origine: Farewell, My Lovely

“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.”

Raymond Chandler libro The Lady in the Lake

Origine: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Contesto: 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.

“The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.”

Raymond Chandler libro The Simple Art of Murder

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

“We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.”

Raymond Chandler libro Farewell, My Lovely

Origine: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 20

“They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder.”

Raymond Chandler libro Farewell, My Lovely

Origine: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 34

“The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law.”

"Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" (essay, 1949), first published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)

“The old man nodded, as if his neck was afraid of the weight of his head.”

Raymond Chandler libro Il grande sonno

Origine: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 2

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