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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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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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A good title is the title of a successful book.
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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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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A really good detective never gets married.
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California, the department store state.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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