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A really good detective never gets married.
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 is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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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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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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