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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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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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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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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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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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California, the department store state.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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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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I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.
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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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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
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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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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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 kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.
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