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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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A really good detective never gets married.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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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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