Raymond Chandler Quotes
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1953.
The younger Kennedy, as Counsel to a Senate Investigating Committee, had made it his mission to show the infiltration and connection of Hoffa and his Teamsters' Union and organized crime. Despite his relentless questioning and investigation, Robert Kennedy was unable to prove and criminal connections and Hoffa denied that the ever existed. But with RFK as Attorney General, many thought Hoffa would be relentlessly persecuted and that he would be worried. But he never appeared so, and the Attorney General was not able to pin anything on Hoffa.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
