Raymond Chandler Quotes about Society

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If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

Raymond Chandler

Community, Society, World

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