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

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
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Chicago
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Raymond Thornton Chandler
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There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
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The streets were dark with something more then night.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
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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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She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
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The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
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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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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.
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Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
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A good story cannot be devised it has to be distilled.
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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 wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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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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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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