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The more you reason the less you create.
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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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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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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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