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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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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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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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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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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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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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