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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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 coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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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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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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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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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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