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The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

Reading, Character, Guy

Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Raymond Chandler

Art, Reading, Men

Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.17, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

Raymond Chandler

Couple, Book, Reading

Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Raymond Chandler

Book, Reading, Design

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler

Book, Reading, Writing

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

Raymond Chandler

Reading, Society, Literature

Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press