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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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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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I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.
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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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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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California, the department store state.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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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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You can't have everything, even in California
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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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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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