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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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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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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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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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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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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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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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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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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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