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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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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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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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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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California, the department store state.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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