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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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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 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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