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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

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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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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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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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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.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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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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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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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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