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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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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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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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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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