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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
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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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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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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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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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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