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You can't have everything, even in California

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Everything
Even
California

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California, the department store state.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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 actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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