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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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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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.
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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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I certainly admire people who do things.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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