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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
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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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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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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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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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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I certainly admire people who do things.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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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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You can't have everything, even in California
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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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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