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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Hangover
Alcohol
Women
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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