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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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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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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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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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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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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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