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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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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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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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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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