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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
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Admire
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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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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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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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 streets were dark with something more then night.
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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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