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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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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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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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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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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.
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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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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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