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

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Dies
Hard
Time
Mostly
Kill

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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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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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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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