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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
Raymond Chandler
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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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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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