More from Raymond Chandler
- “Great Thought” (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
We 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)
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
