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

Raymond Chandler

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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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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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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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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 moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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