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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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