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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
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Kill
Dies
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Time
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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