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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
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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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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
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Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.
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