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Raymond Chandler Inspirational Quotes (124)

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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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