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

Raymond Chandler

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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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