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Today in pulp... some words of wisdom from Raymond Chandler. #WednesdayWisdom

"Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine."

The High Window, by Raymond Chandler. Ballantine, 1972.

"I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin."

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. Penguin, 1968.

"I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee."

Playback, by Raymond Chandler. Pyramid Books, 1968.

"The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume."

Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler. Ballantine, 1972.

"It got dark and the rain-clouded lights of the stores were soaked up by the black street."

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler. New Avon Library, 1943.

"I know one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked."

Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye (1973). Posters by Richard Amsel.

"She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight."

The Little Sister, by Raymond Chandler. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.

"It was a black police Colt, a .38. I had no argument against it at the moment"

Killer In The Rain, by Raymond Chandler. Black Mask, 1935.

"I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hated people but I don't hate them very long."

The Lady In The Lake, by Raymond Chandler. Ballantine, 1970.

"The French have a phrase for it. The bastards had a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little."

More Chandler another time...