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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

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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
Infinitive
Split
Stays
Splits
Grammar
Damn

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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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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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