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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
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Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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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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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.
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If you liked a book, don't meet the author
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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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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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
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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 private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
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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 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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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
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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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