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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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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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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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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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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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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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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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