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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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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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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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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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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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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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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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