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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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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 faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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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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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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