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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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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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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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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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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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