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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
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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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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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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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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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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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be. Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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