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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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