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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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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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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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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California, the department store state.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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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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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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