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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 good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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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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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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