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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
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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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'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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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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