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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

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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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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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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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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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