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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
Raymond Chandler
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
Raymond Chandler
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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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
Raymond Chandler
The more you reason the less you create.
Raymond Chandler
