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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler
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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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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere 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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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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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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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