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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.
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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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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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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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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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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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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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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
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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'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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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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California, the department store state.
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