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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
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Splits
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Damn
Infinitive
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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You can't have everything, even in California
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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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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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