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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
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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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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 age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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I certainly admire people who do things.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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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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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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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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