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Raymond Chandler Frases famosas
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“Em tudo que chamamos de arte existe uma qualidade de redenção.”
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
"The simple art of murder", de Raymond Chandler - Norton, 1968 - 533 páginas
“Quanto mais você raciocina, menos você cria.”
The more you reason the less you create
"Correspondência para Charles Morton, 28 de outubro de 1947" in "The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959" - Página 83, de Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane - Grove Press, 2002, ISBN 0802139469, 9780802139467 - 320 páginas
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Raymond Chandler: Frases em inglês
“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”
Raymond Chandler livro Farewell, My Lovely
Fonte: Farewell, My Lovely
“Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
Raymond Chandler livro The Big Sleep
Fonte: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
Contexto: 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.
Raymond Chandler livro The Simple Art of Murder
Fonte: The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler livro The Big Sleep
Fonte: 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 livro The Long Goodbye
Fonte: The Long Goodbye
“It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.”
Raymond Chandler livro Farewell, My Lovely
Fonte: Farewell, My Lovely
“Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.”
Raymond Chandler livro The Big Sleep
Fonte: The Big Sleep
“I'm killing time and it's dying hard.”
Raymond Chandler livro The Long Goodbye
Variante: Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
Fonte: 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.
Contexto: 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 livro Farewell, My Lovely
Fonte: Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler livro The Lady in the Lake
Fonte: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Contexto: 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.
Raymond Chandler livro The Simple Art of Murder
essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
Raymond Chandler livro The Simple Art of Murder
essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
Raymond Chandler livro Playback
Fonte: Playback (1958), chapter 17
“We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.”
Raymond Chandler livro Farewell, My Lovely
Fonte: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 20
“They say money don't stink," he said. "I sometimes wonder.”
Raymond Chandler livro Farewell, My Lovely
Fonte: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 34
"Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" (essay, 1949), first published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)
letter, 19 April 1951, published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)
“The old man nodded, as if his neck was afraid of the weight of his head.”
Raymond Chandler livro The Big Sleep
Fonte: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 2