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Quotes from The Simple Art of Murder — Raymond Chandler

1888–1959 England

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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with.

The Simple Art of Murder (1950)

Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it [the detective story] is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

The Simple Art of Murder (1950)

Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds. 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. All men must escape at times from the deadly rhythm of their private thoughts. It is part of the process of life among thinking beings.

The Simple Art of Murder (1950)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Raymond Chandler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.