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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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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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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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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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 French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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