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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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More quotes by Raymond Chandler
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
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.
Raymond Chandler
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
Raymond Chandler
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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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.
Raymond Chandler
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
Raymond Chandler
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
Raymond Chandler
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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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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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Raymond Chandler
You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Raymond Chandler
The streets were dark with something more then night.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
Raymond Chandler
Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
Raymond Chandler
