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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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