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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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French
Dies
Littles
Little
Bastards
Everything
Phrase
Right
Always
Goodbye

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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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