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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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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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