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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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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Women
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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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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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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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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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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.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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