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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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 don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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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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