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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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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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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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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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