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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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The more you reason the less you create.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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