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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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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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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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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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