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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

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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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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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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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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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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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