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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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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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