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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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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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