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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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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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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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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They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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