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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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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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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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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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