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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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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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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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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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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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 have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
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The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
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The more you reason the less you create.
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Could she *be* anymore out of my league?
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You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
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The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.
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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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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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California, the department store state.
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He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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