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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Anything
Lettuce
Little
Sticking
Held
Americans
Couple
Wilted
Sides
Toasted
Together
Toothpicks
Littles
Preferably
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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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The more you reason the less you create.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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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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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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