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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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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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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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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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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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