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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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 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 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 nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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