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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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