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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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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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The more you reason the less you create.
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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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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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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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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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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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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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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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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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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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