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Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
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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As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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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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I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
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