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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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 have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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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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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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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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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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California, the department store state.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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