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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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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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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.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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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