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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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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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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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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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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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