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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.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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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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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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.
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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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The more you reason the less you create.
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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 coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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