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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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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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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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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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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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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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 looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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