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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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