Raymond Chandler Sleep Quotations

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.

We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.