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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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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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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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