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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
Angeles
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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California, the department store state.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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 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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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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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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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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