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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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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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