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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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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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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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