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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
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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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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