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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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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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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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