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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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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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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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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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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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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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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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There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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The more you reason the less you create.
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.
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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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