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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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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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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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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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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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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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