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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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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
Angeles
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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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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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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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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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