Raymond Chandler

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.Raymond Chandler

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.Raymond Chandler

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.Raymond Chandler

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.Raymond Chandler

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.Raymond Chandler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.Raymond Chandler

It is not a fragrant world.Raymond Chandler

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.Raymond Chandler

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.Raymond Chandler

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler was a famous American author, who was born on July 23, 1888. As a person born on this date, Raymond Chandler is listed in our database as the 54th most popular celebrity for the day (July 23) and the 11th most popular for the year (1888).

People born on July 23 fall under the Zodiac sign of Leo, the Lion. Raymond Chandler is the 1463rd most popular Leo.

Aside from information specific to Raymond Chandler's birthday, Raymond Chandler is the 8638th most famous American and ranks 223rd in famous people born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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