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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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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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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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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
Raymond Chandler
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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