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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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