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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.

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
Hidden
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