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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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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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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
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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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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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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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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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