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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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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 girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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California, the department store state.
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