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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Dies
Hard
Time
Mostly
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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