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I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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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 smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
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The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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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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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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