Raymond Chandler nejznámější citáty
„Ředitel je člověk jako každý jiný, jenže o tom neví.“
Varianta: Ředitel je člověk jako jiní, jenže neví o tom.
Phil Marlow
Zdroj: [Shaw, Karl, To je skandál!: 101 neuvěřitelná kuriozita od počátku historie po současnost, (původním názvem: Scandal lists), 1, Metafora, Praha, 2007, 239, 72, 978-80-7359-067-3]
Raymond Chandler citáty a výroky
„Záleží vždycky na tom, kdo to píše a co v něm je, z čeho to píše …“
Zdroj: [Škvorecký, Josef, Josef Škvorecký, Josef Škvorecký, Nápady čtenáře detektivek, 1, Praha, Československý spisovatel, 1965, 145, 8. apologie neboli návrat detektivky k poezii, 123, Otázky a názory, 55]
Raymond Chandler: Citáty anglicky
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Varianta: When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Kontext: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
Raymond Chandler kniha The Simple Art of Murder
Zdroj: The Simple Art of Murder
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 6
“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”
Raymond Chandler kniha Farewell, My Lovely
Zdroj: Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep
“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
Raymond Chandler kniha The Long Goodbye
Zdroj: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler kniha The Lady in the Lake
Zdroj: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler kniha Pearls are a Nuisance
"Pearls Are a Nuisance" (short story, 1939)
Zdroj: Pearls are a Nuisance
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Raymond Chandler kniha Pearls are a Nuisance
Zdroj: Pearls are a Nuisance
Raymond Chandler kniha The Lady in the Lake
Zdroj: The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler kniha The Little Sister
Zdroj: The Little Sister (1949), chapter 1
“She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.”
Raymond Chandler kniha The Little Sister
Zdroj: The Little Sister
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25
Raymond Chandler kniha The Long Goodbye
Zdroj: The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler kniha The High Window
Zdroj: The High Window (1942), chapter 36
Kontext: When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Raymond Chandler kniha The Big Sleep
Zdroj: The Big Sleep
