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Raymond Chandler Inspirational Quotes (124)

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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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California, the department store state.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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