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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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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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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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California, the department store state.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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 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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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