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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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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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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.
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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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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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.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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