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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.
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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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 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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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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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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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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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