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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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The more you reason the less you create.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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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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