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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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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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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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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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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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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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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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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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