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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?

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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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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.
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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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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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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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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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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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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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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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