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A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
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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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
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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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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
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One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
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