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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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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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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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