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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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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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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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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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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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