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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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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 snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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