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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
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Screenwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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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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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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