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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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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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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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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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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 always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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