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California, the department store state.
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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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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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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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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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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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.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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