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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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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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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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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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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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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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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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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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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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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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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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