Raymond Chandler Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Character, Guy

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

• In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Quality, Redemption

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.23, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

• All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dream, Lying, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

• In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Strong, Laughter

  "The Simple Art of Murder," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944

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