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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
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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California, the department store state.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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