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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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But nothing seems to do any good.
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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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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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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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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.
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