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The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
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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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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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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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.
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There are no vital and significant forms of art there is only art, and precious little of that.
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I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
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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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What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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You're broke, eh? I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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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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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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Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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