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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.
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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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California, the department store state.
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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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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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