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Raymond Chandler Quotes

Raymond Chandler quote: "The streets were dark with something more than night."

The streets were dark with something more than night.

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You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that... Cormac McCarthy
The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .. Virginia Woolf
Margaret Atwood quote: "Now that I am dead, I know everything."
Now that I am dead, I know everything. Margaret Atwood
I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence. Vanessa Carlton
So you have a new baby sister, huh Charlie Brown? Yes, and I'm so happy... Happy?! I suppose it's never occurred to you that over-population is a serious problem?! Charles M. Schulz
So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. David Frum
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. Marilyn French
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My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush. Soren Kierkegaard
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. Laurell K. Hamilton
Elizabeth I quote: "The past cannot be cured."
The past cannot be cured. Elizabeth I
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion. David Herbert Lawrence
Demosthenes quote: "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes
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