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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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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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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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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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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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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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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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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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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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