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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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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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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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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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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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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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California, the department store state.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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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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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
Raymond Chandler
I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
Raymond Chandler