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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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Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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California, the department store state.
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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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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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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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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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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