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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
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Artist
Art
Everything
Redemption
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Quality

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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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