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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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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 most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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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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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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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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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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