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You can't have everything, even in California

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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
Everything
Even
California
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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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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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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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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