"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off."
― Raymond Chandler
Topic(s): Love
More From Raymond Chandler
- "Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
- "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
- "Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
More In Love
- "Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen."― Lydia Lunch
- "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."― Erich Fromm
- "I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence."― Theodore Dreiser