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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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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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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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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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