Raymond Chandler1888–1959- “Great Thought” (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 13We sneered at each other across the desk for a moment. He sneered better than I did.
Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 20The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.
“I’ll Be Waiting” (short story), The Saturday Evening Post (14 October 1939)- The High Window (1942), chapter 17
- “Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel” (essay, 1949), first published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962)
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
“The Simple Art of Murder”, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
