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I certainly admire people who do things.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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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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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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