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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.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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California, the department store state.
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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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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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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 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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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