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The more you reason the less you create.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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California, the department store state.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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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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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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