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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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Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.
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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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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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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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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.
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Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
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She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
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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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There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
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