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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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.
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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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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