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Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Pleasure
Reading
Entertainment

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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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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
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They write them long because they can't write them short.
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Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
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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 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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Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.
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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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Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
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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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Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
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LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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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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The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
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