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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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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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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 needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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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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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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