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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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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 moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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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 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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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 pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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