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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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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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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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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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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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