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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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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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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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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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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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