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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
Washed
Hating
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