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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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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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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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