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I'm killing time and it's dying 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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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Time
Killing
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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