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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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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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California, the department store state.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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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'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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