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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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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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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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