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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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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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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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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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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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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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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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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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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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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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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