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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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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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