Raymond Chandler Quote of the Week: Sept. 16 - 22, 2007

Time to get back on the quote wagon with the hard-boiled master of the genre:

Anna Halsey was about two hundred and forty pounds of middle-aged putty-faced woman in a black tailor-made suit. Her eyes were shiny black shoe buttons, her cheeks were as soft as suet and about the same color. She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella. She said: "I need a man."

I watched her shake ash from a cigarette to the shiny top of the desk where the flakes of it curled and crawled in the draft from an open window.

"I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel. I need a guy who can act like a bar lizard and backchat with Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick."

-- Trouble Is My Business, 1934

Comments

[tylerh]

I say that if we can find this person, we run them for President.

[Andy Favor]

Great to have the Chandler quotes back Matt!

But Tyler, that description sounds like Schwarzenegger. I will pass on running him for President. Tom McClintock is the man we need for President.