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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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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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