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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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