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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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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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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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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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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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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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