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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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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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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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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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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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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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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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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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But nothing seems to do any good.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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