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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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 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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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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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 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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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