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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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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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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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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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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 moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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