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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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 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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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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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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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