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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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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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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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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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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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 streets were dark with something more then night.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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