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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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 French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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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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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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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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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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