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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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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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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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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