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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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